Rochdale
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
