Islam
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?
Unhappy pilgrimage
The Church is on the move as Christians are “strategically driven” from their homes
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Funny old priorities
Why did Sarah Hussein’s death not attract anything like the interest in Sarah Everard?
Silenced at Speakers’ Corner
Hate crimes operate as a contemporary, de facto blasphemy law
Stabbed for critiquing Islam
This is not the first time Hatun has been assaulted at Speakers’ Corner
A Clockwork Jihadi
Usman Khan’s failed de-radicalisation bears parallels with A Clockwork Orange
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do