Dr David Pitt
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
The right to be gender critical
An Employment Tribunal has again upheld the protected nature of gender critical beliefs
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Allocating blame in the name of climate change
Dwelling on the question of historical responsibility for climate change helps no one
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The rights of the child?
A Scottish bill is importing radical progressive politics in the name of protecting children
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue