Stop and Search
An inconvenient truth
Certain crimes are dominated by certain people
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
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
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
