Edward Said
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan