Melanie Dawes
Stonewall take another hostage
The head of Ofcom thinks it’s “extremely inappropriate” to have guests that disagree with trans activists
Freedom of speech awakens?
Good news from court, but the fact that it got this far shows it’s an uphill struggle for freedom of speech
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals