Authoritarianism
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
A tweet deceit
Is there any tweet the police will not investigate?
Free speech for all
Everyone hurts when the state restricts our right to speak
What are the police good for?
British cops have to focus on actual crimes
West Yorkshire Police have some explaining to do
Why did the police arrest a drunk autistic girl?
Do you feel in control?
Seven years on from the Brexit vote, it is hard to feel independent
See it. Say it. Sod off!
Against the naggy state
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
