Public Inquiry
A grooming gang whitewash
The Government’s grooming gangs inquiry risks becoming another exercise in evasion rather than truth
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
The inquiry industrial complex
What, if anything, do our investigations accomplish?
They didn’t stop the fire
The DUP and the RHI scandal harm the Union
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle