Censorship
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
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
Must we cancel Plato?
Right-wing cancel culture might be marginal but it is unfortunate nonetheless
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on