Law
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
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
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
