Censorship
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
The diversity trap
Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people
A tweet deceit
Is there any tweet the police will not investigate?
The state of hate
The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill
Free speech for all
Everyone hurts when the state restricts our right to speak
The criminalisation of private speech
Parliament and the courts are engaged in a creeping campaign of mass surveillance and censorship
Free speech is bad strategy
The right has to focus on the true and the good
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Symptoms of mistrust
Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Most Read
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
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures