Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
All the President’s toadies
American journalism lacks a healthy contempt for the ruling class
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Remove the kid gloves
“Votes for 16-year-olds” has exposed our incoherent attitude towards young people
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Not polling to be proud of
A study on Black Britons and national pride is based on unreliable stats
It’s not bullying, it’s criticism
Artists don’t have to be shielded from critics
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
