Censorship
Cancelling the soul
A culture of censoriousness is stifling our civic life
The anatomy of cancellation
How speech ends up being suppressed
Stella Creasy’s hypocrisy
Thoughtcrime for me but not for thee
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
The dangers of “safety”
Ill-defined clauses make the Online Safety Bill a threatening prospect
Defending the indefensible
Trans activists have rationalised violent censorship
Speaking English is colonial terrorism
In fact, what’s so good about speech anyway?
Freedom of speech and the freedom to preach
How can “misgendering” mean you end up in a cell?
The myth of evil Twitter 2.0
Its critics are missing the point of the Twitter files
Not coming to a venue near you
How activists have forced a documentary film underground
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state