Police
The strange case of the ‘alleged bonfire’
The council has told me that what I saw was an ‘alleged bonfire’. When I described flames towering into the…
Bas Javid: Why I joined the police
There’s no such thing as a typical week in policing and this last one was no different. It started on…
The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots
Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter. This latest…
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…
Letters: We must sing again
Growing pains Sir: James Forsyth (‘Rewiring the state’, 4 July) shocked this loyal Spectator reader with the following: ‘Even before…
Letters: Why Hugh Dowding deserves a statue
Police relations Sir: As a former Met Police officer, with a similar background to Kevin Hurley, I was surprised how…
Culture is going underground: meet the rebel army
Leaf Arbuthnot and Igor Toronyi-Lalic on the new cultural rebels
Letters: Police must focus on deterring crime, not responding to it
Deterring crime Sir: Rod Liddle is right to highlight the politicisation of the police as a source of their inadequacies,…
The police have become too politicised to function
Forces have become too politicised to function
To save black lives, police top brass must face reality
To save black lives, top brass must face reality
Black Lives Matter is a state-backed religion
‘Protest’ often feels inadequate as a characterization for the public exhibitions that have erupted nationwide over the past several weeks.…
The rule of law is collapsing
It is the law that makes us ‘the best of animals.’ So saying, Aristotle had a very specific conception of…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Don’t defund the police: reform them
‘Nothing works if public space is unsafe,’ says the respected urban sociologist Patrick Sharkey. The ‘Defund the Police’ initiative demands…
Defend the police
President Trump is signing an executive order today on police reform. The order, while relatively toothless, does one important thing:…
The truth about America’s police culture
America can often look, to outsiders, like a country of two warring tribes: the Trumpish anti-PC brigade vs the woke…
Antifa explained
I was in my hotel room in London when the second wave of riots in Ferguson broke out. The clashes…
Madness in Minneapolis
My City Council in Minneapolis has decided to de-something the police. Defend? Nah. Defund. But by ‘defund’, they don’t mean…
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino’s prepared testimony on police brutality
Dan Bongino, a conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent, will testify Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on…
We need black conservatism
We are living through an update of radical chic. Elite white liberals are apologizing for and even applauding the worst…
Abolish the police. Then what?
One of the best rules of thumb to emerge from systems theory is Stafford Beer’s famous statement: the purpose of…
Would Joe Biden defund the police?
Thanks to the nature of digital media, the last 10 days can be seen in entirely different ways. On one…
The creeping nihilism of the American left
The twin temptations of American liberalism are to radical excess and conservative stasis. Because liberalism is a practical philosophy of…
Which black lives matter?
There is practically universal agreement that George Floyd was unjustly killed by police officer Derek Chauvin and that his life…
The roots of riot
That LEGO set or Louis Vuitton bag you’ve always wanted can be yours free if you just wait for the…
