Edward Colston
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
UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
The suicide bomber and me
A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death
Imaginary country
The land of Morbia was revealed to me in a dream
The New Appeasement
Why giving in to Russia is a bigger mistake than Munich
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
The name’s gone
Society needs to end the charade of delegating moral judgments on historic benefactors to schoolchildren
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
Our deepest, darkest fears
The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre