Metropolitan Police
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
How the police eats its own
Cowardice and ideology have turned the management against the officers
Diversity contra quality
The Met’s latest scandal shows that quality is more important than identity
The thick blue line
The problem with humourless police officers
When gangsters move in next door
The British state is unwilling and unable to deal with unwanted neighbours
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think