Free Speech
The People’s Republic of Worcester College
A student dares to cross the red quad and speak out about a shoddy show trial
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
Islamism, not social media, killed David Amess
Why won’t MPs and ministers speak frankly about the motives for his murder?
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Dissing Darth Vader
Longtime Scout leader Brian Walker paid the price for his Christian views
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
