Police
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…
America’s immune system is failing
‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ said President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech on January…
Letters: We need career detectives, not fast-tracked officers
We need career detectives Sir: Your lead article (Trial and error, 29 February) rightly condemns Tom Watson for pressurising police…
Letters: How to really revitalise the North
Devolved or decentralised? Sir: Paul Collier (‘Northern lights’, 22 February) conflates what devolution has come to mean, in UK terms, with…
What is organised crime doing disposing of rubbish?
Criminal gangs are growing rich on public-sector contracts
The ‘Westminster paedophile ring’ is a lesson in how not to carry out a police investigation
A cornerstone of any -functioning democracy is the separation of police and the courts on one hand, and government and…
Cyclists have become an easy police target
Most Britons assume at the outset that any misfortune involving a cyclist is the cyclist’s fault. After all, many a…