Violence
Every crime is a crime
We must distinguish between stories and their misuse
Proving evil
Hyperscepticism about appalling crimes dishonours the dead
The limits of vengeance
We should be careful to avoid natural outrage inspiring irrationality
Ban Hizb ut-Tahrir
There is no place in Britain for calls for violent mobilisation along religious lines
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
Sadiq Khan is putting schools at risk
Exclusions are a vital tool for teachers
Violence against women — but woke?
Politicians should stand up to anti-women aggression
The next unholy war
Violence is brewing again in the Middle East
The French disorder
France needs more realism about its social decay
Enabling aggression
We must take on violence in British schools
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
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Embrace uncool Britannia
Warhammer is a barnstorming British success, so why the lack of recognition?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
