Tommy Robinson

Why Britain riots

10 August 2024 9:00 am

Riotous summers seem to occur in Britain with about the same frequency as sunny ones: roughly every decade. Sometimes it’s…

The unparalleled entertainment – and heartbreaking reality – of watching a court hearing

7 September 2019 9:00 am

‘Barristers’ speeches vanish quicker than Chinese dinners, and even the greatest victory in court rarely survives longer than the next…

Tommy Robinson is no martyr. Here’s how to stop him becoming one

12 July 2019 11:21 pm

We might not care for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon but we should care very much about what happens to him in prison…

On milkshakes

25 May 2019 9:00 am

Should we make it illegal to study the social sciences? Imagine the amount of tendentious rubbish we could erase from…

The truth is we prefer to lie

6 October 2018 9:00 am

There are no necessary truths any more. Everything is contingent. And those contingencies are the consequence not of what happens…

The curious case of Mo Ansar

17 May 2014 9:00 am

How was it that Mo Ansar, a bank employee in Hampshire, became the voice of British Islam?

Tommy Robinson: Double standards, not fear of diversity, provoked the EDL

19 October 2013 9:00 am

An encounter with Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League

Hugo Rifkind: For now, I’m choosing to believe in Tommy Robinson’s conversion

12 October 2013 9:00 am

I’ve often thought it might be interesting to meet Tommy Robinson, or Stephen Lennon, or whatever one is supposed to…