Protest
Kill the Bill!
The more you study what is going on with the Just Stop Oil protests and the Public Order Bill, the…
What a drag
Why are protestors so angry about a children’s story hour?
To boo or not to boo
Are modern theatre-goers too polite?
There is no transgender debate
Anyone still talking about ‘two sides in the transgender debate’ needs to look at the footage from Bristol yesterday. Actually,…
What’s happening in Kazakhstan?
Since the start of the new year, riots have spread throughout Kazakhstan. In the former capital of Almaty, the airport has…
The law is not fit to stop Extinction Rebellion’s street protests
Extinction Rebellion (XR) are once again blocking London’s streets, reportedly emboldened by the Supreme Court’s recent Ziegler decision – which…
Macron’s war on Covid meets resistance
A manager of an attraction park in France was reportedly assaulted on Sunday after he denied entry to a customer.…
Cuba libre
Havana There is an astonishing patience in the Cuban people, born of endless waiting. When a store has, say, chicken,…
Britain should resist copying the EU’s corporate responsibility law
Big corporations have a lot not to be proud of, and we certainly could do with laws to rein in…
Don’t ‘Kill the Bill’
Are the rights of protesters and the rights of all other citizens fairly balanced? Think back to the Extinction Rebellion…
Revolution and repression
Certain novels complicate the very notion of literary enjoyment. This, by the author of the international bestseller The Yacoubian Building,…
Eliminate the positive
Sam Byers’s worryingly zeitgeisty second novel, Perfidious Albion, imagined a post-Brexit dystopia dominated by global tech companies, corrupt spin doctors,…
Olympics’ organisers could regret banning ‘taking the knee’
Knee-taking and fist-raising protests have been banned at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee warning athletes who flout the rules…
Models of obedience
Protests are being staged against the proposed bill to change the laws on protest. But there is a bigger issue…
Portrait of the week
Home The government sketched a scheme for a coronavirus passport, or ‘Covid status certification’, to be tried out at the…
Why will nobody publish my cartoons?
I am having very little success in getting my collection of cartoons of great religious founders published. Perhaps it is…
Normal life matters
I wonder exactly when we agreed that it is more of a priority to gather with strangers than to meet…
Portrait of the Week
Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…
The year of living obediently
I wonder if British universities will follow Cornell’s innovative approach to ensuring students are protected from wretched viruses? The American…
In defence of Millwall fans
It is an enormous shame that the Millwall fans who booed their players for ‘taking a knee’ in support of…
Letter from Bangkok
Three years ago I sat down to write a novel set in my adopted home city. Placing its claustrophobic action…
Election notebook
Earlier this summer left-wing activists announced a ‘semi-autonomous zone’ in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. Denuded of law enforcement…
The police’s picky attitude to protests
I’ve never been a great fan of public demonstrations. When I was at university, one of the great causes du…
US protestors are clearing the way for Trump
‘This city is not going to stop burning itself down until they [the protestors] know that this officer has been…
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…
