Edward Colston
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
An epidemic of misguided moralising
The difference between vaccine sceptics and advocates is not as great as it appears
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
It’s time to burst the red balloons
How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?
King of the clay court
On the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, Nadal is God
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Red meat week?
Boris Johnson is reduced to conducting his publicity tours in secret
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
Sex denialism helps nobody
Who is responsible for the backlash against women’s and LGBT rights?
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too