Crime
The curious decline of the charismatic criminal
What happened to a classic British institution?
What justice for grooming gang survivors?
A new judgment represents some progress
Questioning Casey
Are black Londoners “over-policed”?
Criminal reporting
The New York Times is deplorably incurious
Britain’s grooming shame
When will there be consequences?
Journalism is failing women
We deserve to know the sex of dangerous criminals
Bring back the traitors
To abandon the crime of treason is to move towards a post-national future
Those who knew or could have known
Accountability does not end with criminals themselves
A libel against women
There is no sudden outbreak of female flashers
Farewell to a phone
The grim normalisation of property theft
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
