Padron Peppers
A peppery encounter
Try perfectly-charred Pimientos de Padrón
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
