Democracy
Save the Guy
Consultations on statue removal have blatantly ignored public opinion
A new democratic alliance
The world needs to rekindle its democratic alliances to counter China’s growing techno-authoritarian power
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
The pride of the Republic of Poland
The President of Poland celebrates 230 years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of 3 May 1791
Russia’s policy of Westernophobia
Weekly pressers from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have turned into festivals of hostility towards the countries caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs — why?
Jordan: The coup that wasn’t
The strength of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy is a precious thing — and one which only gets its due in rare moments of turmoil
Amnesty International is wrong to brand Alexei Navalny an anti-hero
The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave
The hypocrisy of the new-found freedom lovers
Commentators who have spent the last 20 years undermining key principles of democracy are crawling out from the woodwork to protect the right to protest
The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
The Police Bill isn’t the threat to democracy the Left say it is
If you’re looking for the enemies of free speech, you’re looking the wrong way, argues Robert Poll