Peggy McIntosh
Privilege
Privilege comes from the Latin privilegium, a bill or law giving advantage to a private individual
No need to plead guilty
The fashionable doctrine of ‘white privilege’ is fatally undermined by the facts
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?