Free Speech
Of course there’s a double-standard in policing
Silent prayer is treated more seriously than outright disorder
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
Ban the protest
Against the pathology of tolerance
Against ideas
We have too many of them and they are not doing any good
The right to protest is not absolute
Freedom to protest should by constrained by freedom from violence
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
Don’t get squishy on free speech
Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty
Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?
Yesterday’s censors are today’s free speech champions
Twelve things more arrestable than calling for jihad
Just so we know
Struggling with CRT in the workplace
We should resist the creeping spread of a Manichean model of social life
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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
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders