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
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
Why are great writers such awful people?
In the wake of renewed controversy over Philip Roth’s treatment of women, Nigel Jones asks whether there is a link between creative genius and sexual unorthodoxy
The EU is no haven for political naysayers
Is it right that Britain should be forced to extradite the political agitators of other EU states?
No Russian money for Dom
Grieve accidentally sends begging emails to eurosceptics
The highest calling
Johnson doesn’t take responsibility for his own actions, so why should anyone else in the government?
Can public art ever be any good?
Nobody could accuse Hockney of over-exerting himself
Why is Saudi Arabia locking up women’s rights activists?
Women like Loujain al-Hathloul are “premature reformers”: their crime is to demand social change before the state is ready to concede it
Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?
From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?