Crime
Time for action on Palestine Action
We have to take a tough line against aggressive sectarianism in Britain
Should we tackle shoplifters?
A call for civic action obscures state irresponsibility
IPSO’s grooming gangs mix-up
A 2020 report continues to dampen the truth on Britain’s worst sex abuse scandal
How many people actually smoke?
Manchester memories and the black market in tobacco
Guilt, innocence and suspicion
The presumption of innocence cannot only have a strict legal meaning
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
Lucy Letby and the exploitation of tragedy
Must everything be absorbed by the discourse?
A nation of curtain twitchers
Britain is becoming pettier, nastier and more tedious
Call it kidnap
Do not write this off as a simple case of overzealous policing
The German disillusionment
Germans have lost faith in the political establishment
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
