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
Financial censorship
The new front in the war on free speech
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning