Free Speech
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them