On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
