Richard Wright
Richard Wright is a freelance journalist based in the West Country. He was a TV reporter and former senior lecturer in journalism at Westminster University.
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
It’s OK to be angry about socialism
It is perverse that this chronic failure of an ideology endures
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
The love that can’t be erased
A recent court case exposed the surrogacy industry’s big lie