Law
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Most Read
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
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on