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
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
