Judges
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Who governs Britain?
Politicians should have more power than judges
The justice system is enabling criminals
Britain needs more prison cells and stiffer sentences for dangerous violent men
Why Jenrick is right to judge the judges
Blairite constitutional vandalism is not a sacred tradition
The legal system is not keeping Britons safe
Judges should not be softer on criminals for being constitutionally rather than calculatedly dangerous
Criticising judges
If a judge cannot tolerate public scrutiny, they have no business being a judge
In praise of criticising judges
Our political culture depends on its accountability
Judges are not above scrutiny
Representatives of state power deserve to be held to account
The case against judicial review
British proceduralism has hamstrung British ambition and innovation
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre