Edward Colston
Imagine a world without lawyers on Twitter
The case of the Colston statue
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion
Nothing ventured
Why the statue-smashers can’t tolerate civil society
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
Toppling law and order
The moment Colston went on trial, so did justice
Wokeminster
Tories reject unconscious bias training, BBC show critical race lecture, and Colston falls (again)
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
The facts and the fury
Feeling strongly about an issue is a dangerous justification for mob action
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
