Free Speech
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character