Criminalisaton
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Freeing Speech
A new report is gratifyingly pro-freedom and pro-free speech
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
