Free Speech
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
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
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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
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power