Crime
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
What are the police good for?
British cops have to focus on actual crimes
Neither moral nor just
The problem with Britain’s sentencing disparities
West Yorkshire Police have some explaining to do
Why did the police arrest a drunk autistic girl?
Policing: a radical solution
Competition would improve policing standards
Stand up for Karen
We ought to be prepared to confront rulebreakers
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
