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The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
No place at the bar for challenging woke politics
The Bar Council’s verdict on Jon Holbrook’s cancellation last month shows that the bar has become an unwelcoming place for those who believe in free speech
Cancelled by my barristers’ chambers over a Tweet
Cancel culture is a straitjacket on the free expression of ideas, and democracy cannot hope to function when antagonists are muzzled
Taking back control?
The new treaty contains clauses that constrain Britain in key aspects of public policy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was