Free Speech
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
Keep the cops out of our minds
Silent thoughts should never be prohibited
An £800,000 lesson in how not to do diversity training
Lloyds should never have fired Carl Borg-Neal
“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”
Must we all be aligned with the values of Stonewall?
Britain’s arbitrary authoritarianism
Recent prosecutions over speech should concern us all
The truth about cancel culture
Conservatives are merely incidental players in a vicious leftist civil war
Hey, regulator, leave those teachers alone
Against authoritarian tolerance in education
The future is bright for academic freedom
New threats to speech inquiry could inspire an unlikely consensus around openness
The renegade progressives
Has the University and College Union discovered freedom of speech?
Free speech lives in Finland
The Helsinki court’s affirmation of free speech today is a much-needed beacon of hope
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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
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté