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Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
Welcome to the TERF wars
In response to Richard Dawkins’ recent cancellation, Maya Forstater welcomes the scientist into the ongoing “TERF wars”
Jane Austen’s social and political world
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited
Stolen glories
Alexander Adams delves into two new books that examine the art theft of occupying armies in two different ages
Front line dictator
What the death of Idriss Deby Itno in battle means for the fight against Islamic terrorism
Brought to heel
Go, Johnny, go!
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Libraries and laureates: a study in necessity
Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one
Christopher Hitchens and the culture war
Where would the late ciceronian speaker have fit into today’s polemical battles?
Is it really time for the monarchy to go?
How the case for monarchy rests not only in its advantages, but also in its alternatives