Law
In praise of criticising judges
Our political culture depends on its accountability
The police are ruining their reputation
The average citizen has no reason to put their faith in British policing
Kristie Higgs’ victory is a victory for freedom
Christians should breathe a sigh of relief on hearing the verdict
Are we getting blasphemy law in disguise?
Public order law is being used to protect religious sensitivities
Killing terrorists is not a crime
It is absurd to punish soldiers for effectively prosecuting a war
The truth about work, single-sex spaces and the law
Sandie Peggie should not have had to change with a male person
In defence of blasphemy laws
Conservatives are forgetting an important tradition
Don’t blame knives for knife crime
We should blame the people who are using them and the institutions that enable crime
A question of killing
Why is it okay to kill granny but not child murderers?
Judges are not above scrutiny
Representatives of state power deserve to be held to account
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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
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson