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
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
