Metropolitan Police
Raid homes to get back phones
Cops need new powers to retrieve stolen property
The emptiness of the “abolish” meme
Reform doesn’t sound quite as exciting
Questioning Casey
Are black Londoners “over-policed”?
Those who knew or could have known
Accountability does not end with criminals themselves
Farewell to a phone
The grim normalisation of property theft
Against the consultancy blob
Why are we still listening to the behavioural insights team?
Even cops are innocent until proven guilty
A new report does not prove that the police are racist
Women cannot trust the police
How can sexist officers investigate rape?
Hate crime and hate slime
There’s a difference between violence and criticism
Stonewall’s cop coup backfires
How an institution betrayed its own ideals
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
