Law
Why Mermaids lost
There is no right to avoid criticism
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
Why Carole lost
Her advocates have done her no favours
The anti-gambling racket
New regulations are not based on expertise
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Trans rights and wrongs
There is more than one definition of a “right”
How not to solve a crime
The police’s dilatory response to a minor case exemplifies our national sclerosis
The meaning of rape
There is no case for expanding its definition
In harm’s way
What counts as serious harm in cases of libel?
The EU rule of law crisis
The UK should be paying more attention
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
