Censorship
Gender ketman
Masking doubts to avoid dissent
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
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?
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
