David Mellor
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together