Islam
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Towards Anglo-French anti-extremism
France was right to ban a campaigner with dubious Islamist connections
Paradise lost?
The decline of freedom in Malaysia
Israel alone?
The Middle East is entering a dangerous new period
Can we be heroes?
Cowardice is inescapable in British public life
Britain’s blasphemy laws
We must stand up to intimidation
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
The police are enabling Islamic intolerance
Where can we provoke if not at Speakers’ Corner?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
