Vagrancy Act
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
In the public sty
Ministers set to decriminalise rough-sleeping and public begging
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all
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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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile