Peter Tatchell – the latest ‘racist’ and ‘transphobic’ target of speech-policing students
Like any thought criminal, his NUS accuser gave him no explanation, nor did her supporters believe he even had a right to ask for one.
Davis made a positive pitch today – so why was the chosen spin for his speech so negative?
The newspapers can’t be blamed for reporting that Britain won’t be “plunged into a Mad Max-style world” – his own department issued the quote in advance.
The Belfast Agreement is the best agreement we’ve got
For all its compromises and ambiguities, it is the only practicable means to hand of giving the province something approaching normalcy.
‘Partial’ customs union means paying a high price to be stuck in EU limbo
But a vote on some form of customs union is coming. Might it become a confidence issue?
More good school places for pupils. Back to the future with Hinds.
His first major interview returns policy to the spirit of May’s original education ideas, with new faith schools and expanded selective ones as part of the mix.
Votes at 16. Handle with care.
We feel a commission, a working group, an inquiry coming in – to look these inconsistencies, accidents of history and quirks, to see if some tidying-up is required.
Why Northern Ireland’s talks collapsed. Sinn Fein’s red line was too green for the DUP.
Even if the DUP and Sinn Fein could persuade their communities to back the compromises necessary, they have not done so.
Hunt followers do not blame May for backing away from a free vote on the ban
At the Kimblewick Hunt in the Chilterns, they can see that now is not the time to try to reverse it.
After his success on reading, Gibb gets his way on times tables
The Schools Minister has been a near-constant presence at the forefront of educational reform. It’s good that Hinds is listening to him.
Why our European neighbours think we’re a basket case
Johnson’s speech today and the Commission’s basic take are strangely similar – Brexit points to a Canada-type settlement on alignment and divergence.
Too often, the West allows itself to be propagandised by hostile tyrants
In addition to the old ‘useful idiots’, the Kims and Castros of the world know they can rely on the aid of genuine idiots, too. We ought to know better.
Poland’s new Holocaust law is unworthy of one of the great, civilised nations of Europe
The Law and Justice Party has sought to foment a poisonous dynamic which could do great harm to relations with Poland’s Jews.
The withdrawal of public funds is the best thing that could happen to Oxfam
Taxpayers’ money has sapped the independence, and the moral responsibility, of our great charities.
The stubborn resilience of the Conservatives in the opinion polls
A brief glance at this month’s findings to date helps to explain why Tory MPs have been resisting media and some internal pressure for a leadership challenge.
The Belfast Agreement should not be hijacked to sacralise all of Dublin’s demands
It does not stipulate that an invisible border with the Republic trumps the integrity of the United Kingdom.