Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
How not to argue
A new book is an unreliable guide to talking about controversial issues
How pronouns can obfuscate and mislead
Our use of language should be dictated by the truth more than kindness
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
Deconstructing the architecture of cancel culture
The censorious impulse is degrading intellectual discourse on both sides of the Atlantic
The thoughtlessness of guilt by association
We cannot judge ideas on the basis of the people who happen to hold them
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age