ID Cards
We should not accept ID cards
Our liberties should not be compromised because of dysfunction in the political system
Reconsidering the case for ID cards
If tracking Covid-19 requires “immunity passports” then why not as part of an ID card?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park