Louis Mountbatten
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
