Free Speech
Public order and liberal doublethink
Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned
Criminalising prayer protects no one
Laws against so-called conversion therapy are threatening the freedom of belief
Censorship and the Holocaust
Silencing Bridgen for a poor choice of words is the real insult to the victims of totalitarianism
Beware the thought police
Britain is now a country where you can be arrested for what’s in your head
Don’t criminalise support
The government should change course on Clause 9
The silence of women
Shouldn’t a talk show host be good at listening?
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
I reserve the right to upset you
Only idiots think we should succumb to the special pleading of intolerant majorities
On Britishness
Having that debate
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
