Sentencing
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Towards two-tier justice
Why illegal entry plus crime should equal aggravated punishment
“Senseless”
Loose talk, as they used to say in the war, costs lives
The tyranny of equality
Blinkered policy focus on eliminating inequality might end up making us all worse off
Against legalism
The problem is often law, not just bad law
The two-tier justice row
What did MPs think addressing racial disparities meant, if not introducing measures based on race?
The Sentencing Council is wrong, full stop
Disparities in outcomes is not proof of unfair discrimination
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Neither moral nor just
The problem with Britain’s sentencing disparities
Criminal reporting
The New York Times is deplorably incurious
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree