Law
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
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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
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it