Law
Starmer’s political prisoners, pt. 2
Amid the outrage that followed the British riots, great injustices were done
Starmer’s political prisoners
How the government used arbitrary authoritarianism to quell unrest
The case against judicial review
British proceduralism has hamstrung British ambition and innovation
In defence of “stirring up”
The law should target harms and not the potential for harm
The tyranny of the train companies
Train companies are bullying the innocent while blatant lawbreakers run free
The reality of the roads
Young men should be aware of the brutal realities of gang life
The assisted suicide debate is not over
But will its supporters try and stop genuine scrutiny?
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
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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
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy