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
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
Hate is not a crime
Officers’ good intentions have been weaponised by unscrupulous whingers to muzzle their ideological opponents
Howdy, partner
On the least erotic noun in the English language
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
A year in review: the National Trust
Is the Great Fracas of 2020-21 over?
Criminally stupid
In 1912, Parliament debated mandatory vaccines for the feeble-minded
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
Lights out for Sturgeon
The powers she wants will guarantee darkness across Scotland
Qatar of Hydrogen, Saudi Arabia of Wind
Governments are gambling their economies on the Green agenda — and the people are paying
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore