Censorship
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
On trial for a question
The hunting of a Finnish heretic
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
We need new legislation to force banks to respect free speech
Rethinking “free speech”
Censorship is not only desirable but necessary if a democratic society and its laws are to function correctly
The sludge of sensitivity
Politics is degrading our cultural classics
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Think, write, publish
Russian literature is not bound to Russian politics
The silence should be deafening
Professor Matt Cook has underestimated the impact of censorship on women
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
