football transfers
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
