Free Speech
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The police should stop wasting time on tweets
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare?
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
