Rape
Why don’t women always go to the police?
The legal system fails victims
Guilt, innocence and suspicion
The presumption of innocence cannot only have a strict legal meaning
Honouring Amber
We must remember victims of evil
What justice for grooming gang survivors?
A new judgment represents some progress
The meaning of rape
There is no case for expanding its definition
Britain’s grooming shame
When will there be consequences?
Redefining rape
You can’t take the penis out of rape law
The trans shaming of a rape survivor
The shocking case of an assault victim denied life-saving surgery because she asked for single-sex facilities
Women cannot trust the police
How can sexist officers investigate rape?
Hate crime and hate slime
There’s a difference between violence and criticism
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
