Academic Freedom
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Academic freedom is stuck in legal limbo
The government must clarify how the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 is going to be enforced
Who has the right to speak in universities?
Invitations should not be rescinded — but no one has the right to an invitation
Will academic freedom be upheld?
Will the University of Sussex be penalised for failing to uphold free speech?
Must we cancel Plato?
Right-wing cancel culture might be marginal but it is unfortunate nonetheless
Why British universities are bowing to Beijing
Commercial interests appear to be compromising academic freedom
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy