Democrats
Is California recalling progressivism?
The recall of the Governor undermines the woke-ism that dominates the national Democratic Party
Letter from Washington: Cities need conservatives
…and conservatives need cities
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
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
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
