Free Speech
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
