Censorship
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
Cancellation of a Brazilian artist
Dissenting opinions on transgenderism can inspire attempts to erase careers
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
