Violence
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
The revised Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy is not fit for purpose
Any work for bringing it into force should be stopped
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer