Law
We should dissent from our allies on assisted suicide
Their examples show the dangers of legalisation
Against legalism
The problem is often law, not just bad law
Two-tier justice
But it is not the form of bias that one might expect
A rare victory for proportion
The connotations of words can depend on their context, numpties
Thoughts on a crisis
A vision of a salvageable democracy built squarely on an orthodox account of the supremacy of political institutions
The Sentencing Council is wrong, full stop
Disparities in outcomes is not proof of unfair discrimination
Strengthening Britain’s political constitution
The unique character of Britain’s constitution can make our politics great again
Multiculturalism contra justice
Something new is coming down the “far-right conspiracy theory” to government policy pipeline
Britain must lower the cost of crime
The lawful majority are suffering from the effects of the criminal minority
Is the government sleepwalking into a digital disaster?
The digital identities framework needs to account for individuals’ sex
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false