Constantinople
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
What does surrogacy say about us?
We are putting the interests of adults above those of children
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Sunak of many colours
He has become all things to all people, that he might save some seats
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise