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
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
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
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
