Crime
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Southport and the inescapability of politics
There is nothing essentially wrong with talking about immigration
How can we talk about male violence now?
Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
