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
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
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
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
