09/08/2020 - 2:01pm

Why defunding the police will hurt women most The criminal justice system is the only safeguard for those in greatest need of protection

Louise Perry

20.08

Can sex offenders change? A new documentary suggests there is little hope of rehabilitating all those men who behave like monsters

Sarah Ditum

04.08

How white radicals hijacked Portland’s protests Anarchists are using Black Lives Matter as a smokescreen for insurrection

Michael Tracey

11.06

Abolishing the police is a cop out It just kicks the can of moral authority down the road

Mary Harrington

03.06

Britain’s race pain is not the same as America’s A like-for-like equation is potentially inflammatory, crassly propagandistic — and untrue

Ralph Leonard

01.04

Why we must resist the corona-tyrants As Parliament keeps the whole population under house arrest, there are very few voices of dissent

Paul Embery

31.03

Can they really arrest you for walking the dog? You might think you've got a reasonable excuse to leave the house — the police might not

Adam King

18.02

Why Boris should bring back conscription We need something more radical than a recruitment drive to fill the gaps in our public services

Polly Mackenzie

16.10

The Yorkshire Ripper fired up my feminism Peter Sutcliffe's crimes exposed the misogyny of Eighties England — and opened my eyes to politics

Julie Bindel

01.10

Our politics of impossible promises Politicians should confine themselves to the realm of the possible – rather than painting a picture of utopia.

Polly Mackenzie

30.07

Why women are Carl Beech’s real victims

Joan Smith

14.03

Don’t base policy on moral panic Lurid tales of innocent men jailed for rape led to new rules on disclosure – with disastrous consequences

Joan Smith