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
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
Bridget Phillipson: culture warrior
The Labour party seems determined to end the culture war — by winning it
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
