Free Speech
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
The awkward truth about sex and free speech
More women should realise that “inclusivity” should not come before freedom
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
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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
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option