Censorship
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
The police should stop wasting time on tweets
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare?
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
