A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
An £800,000 lesson in how not to do diversity training
Lloyds should never have fired Carl Borg-Neal
“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”
Must we all be aligned with the values of Stonewall?
Struggling with CRT in the workplace
We should resist the creeping spread of a Manichean model of social life
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
Diversity, equity and exclusion
Intent and context always matter in the use of language
The state of hate
The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill
The criminalisation of private speech
Parliament and the courts are engaged in a creeping campaign of mass surveillance and censorship
The battle is not the war
Free speech defenders should not celebrate prematurely
The growing threat of financial censorship
The EU is clamping down on social media
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
