Free Speech
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
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
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General