Police
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?
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Infected blood and infected institutions
Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
No more Mr Boring
Farage is making politics fun again
The renovation of the Heal’s Building
Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
