Lynsay Watson
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
How I was secretly logged as a criminal by police
In the Kafkaesque world of guilt without proof
How my Critic article got me in trouble with the police
Lincolnshire plod and a “criminal” misgendering
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave