Free Speech Union
The future is bright for academic freedom
New threats to speech inquiry could inspire an unlikely consensus around openness
Free speech needs a law
Face the problem as it is — the modern academy is running on different train-tracks to liberal humanist thinking
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
With free speech, practise what you preach
How one Edinburgh student was censored by the student newspaper promoting free speech
What to do when you’ve been cancelled
How to wean cancel culture addicts off their favourite drug
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
Physicist could be fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ tweet
Laser scientist with US Defence contract is the latest victim of the culture war
The newest think-tanks
Your guide to the latest start-ups from wonk-world
Cancelling cancel culture
The need for the Free Speech Union is pressing but the obstacles are great
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
