Free Speech
The Police Bill isn’t the threat to democracy the Left say it is
If you’re looking for the enemies of free speech, you’re looking the wrong way, argues Robert Poll
Fair Cop’s case in court
It looks like the College of Policing has strayed far from its path; let’s hope the Court of Appeal can set it back in the right direction
The canary in the coal mine
The UK is at a dangerous junction when it comes to free speech
No place at the bar for challenging woke politics
The Bar Council’s verdict on Jon Holbrook’s cancellation last month shows that the bar has become an unwelcoming place for those who believe in free speech
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box
Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law
Using the Force against wokeness: A galactic scandal for Disney
The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat
Six ways to end Britain’s culture wars
Nigel Jones proposes a list of six steps that the government could easily enact to conserve our liberty
Banned from researching trans
Perceived criticism of trans orthodoxy was too much for one university
Is Hezbollah protected by the Lebanese political system?
And does Lokman Slim’s murder indicate a change in Hezbollah’s deployment of violence?
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
