Human Rights
The freedom to live out your faith
Qatar proves we need a new definition of freedom of religion
The right to protest is not the right to crime
People who break the law have always faced consequences
The police should use their powers
They have the right to remove protestors from roads
Euthanasia on trial
What does it mean to die with dignity?
Conflict and the need for clarity
On equalities and rights
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
A new blasphemy law?
LGBT groups are demanding a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” — but the devil’s in the detail
American judges have chosen life — so should Britain
It’s not only the US Supreme Court that has serious concerns about abortion
Children aren’t pets
When did it become okay to degrade children?
Godless and gutless
Putin is no Christian bastion, but neither is the West
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty