Courts
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
The justice system is enabling criminals
Britain needs more prison cells and stiffer sentences for dangerous violent men
In defence of jury trials
David Lammy’s proposal to abolish trial by jury in all but the most serious cases is wicked and irrational
British courts are being clogged by unaccountable quangos
How can an Australian company be sued by Brazilians — in Britain?
Time to end amateur justice
Magistrates are a bunch of credential-seeking amateurs
The two-tier justice row
What did MPs think addressing racial disparities meant, if not introducing measures based on race?
Judges are not above scrutiny
Representatives of state power deserve to be held to account
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate