Police
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
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 return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
The police should stop wasting time on tweets
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare?
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
