Civil Society
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands