Censorship
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
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
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
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
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water