Institutions

Epping: They Did Everything Right

A town objected. Its council went to court rather than to the streets. It lost, twice, and was ordered to pay the Home Secretary's legal bill. Ask yourself what lesson that teaches — and who has to live with it.

The ledger

Police & Courts

Would You Give Them The Rope?

Most people think the worst crimes deserve the worst punishment. Fair enough. But the question isn't what the guilty deserve — it's whether you trust this state, with its recent record, to decide who the guilty are.

The Record

Who Do They Work For?

The Prime Minister thinks the problem is how people arrive. It isn't. And when a government knows what the country wants and does the opposite anyway, the question stops being about immigration and starts being about who holds power in this country.

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