Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it

We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people

A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?

The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable

High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors

In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own

Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK

Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious

Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail

Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”