Voter ID
The slippery slope to basic standards
How has the demand for “access” overridden basic requirements?
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism