English civil law has become a luxury good beyond the reach of most of us
Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi
Kate’s critics should be ashamed of themselves
Who is this speaking with a sneer on their lips and contempt in their voice before news of the Princess of Wales’s…
George Galloway’s Rochdale win should trouble Labour
The Rochdale by-election raises a question that Labour will find hard to duck in government: can a European left-wing party…
Violence is corrupting our democracy
Fascism begins with political violence on the streets. In 1922, Benito Mussolini ordered his supporters to march on Rome and…
Muslims won’t be fooled by George Galloway any more
It is a measure of how conspiracy theories have triumphed in the darkest corners of the left that, when the…
The QAnon-style in anti-Israel conspiracy theories
On Boxing Day pro-Palestine demonstrators met customers at the Zara sale in the Westfield shopping centre, in Stratford, east London.…
Anti-Semitism is a threat to the West
Down the road from where I live in Islington, the Jewish community put up a menorah in a park on…
Why the far left sides with Hamas
The great fault of the global left is not that it supports Hamas. For how could western left-wing movements or…
Vivian Silver and the collapse of the Israeli left
The well-lived life and foul murder of Vivian Silver encapsulate the hopelessness of Israel-Hamas war and the bad faith that…
What the ceasefire vote means for the future of the Labour party
It’s a little too easy to dismiss the huge Labour rebellion on the Israel-Hamas war last night as ‘virtue signalling’.…
Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous ally for the left
There is no better example of modern pseudo-sophistication than the dismissal of the argument in the Labour party about a ceasefire…
Why the far left supports Hamas
It’s not often that Brits can say that the US is behind the UK. But in understanding the dynamic between the…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
British anti-Semites are delighted by the attack on Israel
You might think the massacre of Jewish civilians will stop anti-Jewish hatred in Britain. Or, if that is too much…
Why ‘wokeness’ is doomed to fail
There are two dishonest conversations about wokeness, or identity politics if you prefer the less contentious term. The first from conservatives…
A woke witch hunt has taken over the arts
Remove the preconceptions that stop you seeing clearly, and it is hard to tell the difference between how the arts…
Would Biden punish Sunak for pulling out of the ECHR?
The US government has warned British security officials that the ‘five eyes’ intelligence-sharing agreement may be at risk if the…
The conservative war on free speech
The hopeful life and wretched death of Claudia Gavrilovna Popova during a previous age of extremes should speak to us…
Who will dare stand against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington?
Labour has announced whether its sitting MPs will step down or fight again at the next election in nearly every…
A culture of fear has taken over academia and the arts
At the end of the second world war, George Orwell went to an event organised by PEN, a campaign dedicated…
Labour’s disturbing attitude to press freedom
Once in every generation the Labour party gets tired of losing elections and prepares for power by neutralising potential sources…
Labour can’t believe they are heading for victory
Last night, Labour politicians wondered how to respond to the challenges the Chancellor was sending their way. Do you accept…
‘Liz Truss hasn’t understood a word I wrote’, says PM’s favourite author
As I reported this summer, Liz Truss’s favourite historian is Rick Perlstein, the great chronicler of the rise of the…
The City still runs on nepotism
When Liz Truss says she wants to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, she thinks she is making a moral…
Labour’s debt binge dilemma
Labour has a populist argument against Liz Truss’s spendaholic plans to borrow money from the international money markets and direct…