Law
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
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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 Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes