David Mellor
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
