Policing
When Humans Are Just Pieces of Cargo
Despite laws, protocols and international conventions, the number of people being trafficked into servitude is growing
Don’t Write off America
It’s fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don’t bet on it – still less wish for it
Brief Encounter
Being a victim of a “speciality offence” only reaffirmed my views about police PR
Refugee in his Own Country
Robert Redeker has lived in hiding in France for two years. His offence? To have criticised the Prophet Muhammad
Power to the Spokespeople
‘Our statesmen and officials not only listen but actually pay money to people who threaten them’
Make the Right Connection
Cameron’s former speechwriter quit politics to devote himself to Only Connect, a theatre group for ex-prisoners.
Fear Returns to Russia
Standpoint‘s Mole in Moscow compares life for the intelligentsia under Putin with the Soviet era
Four Days of Terror in Mumbai
A city in the grip of rumour and recrimination—an eye-witness account of the jihadi attacks and their aftermath
Saving Gemma from Her Carers
If ‘localism’ is to succeed, more power should be given to the people, not local government
ONLINE ONLY: ID Cards to be Labour’s Final Fiasco?
After widespread protest, a Japanese High Court ruled that their similar scheme could not legally be enforced. Will people in the UK just roll over and allow the government to know all about them?
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts