Lawyers
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
Imagine a world without lawyers on Twitter
The case of the Colston statue
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar