Free Speech
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
The diversity trap
Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people
Elon Musk and your digital soul
Don’t let Musk’s image blind you to his business ambitions
How the Danes paid the Danegeld
We should resist the new blasphemy laws
Free speech for all
Everyone hurts when the state restricts our right to speak
West Yorkshire Police have some explaining to do
Why did the police arrest a drunk autistic girl?
Free speech is bad strategy
The right has to focus on the true and the good
Symptoms of mistrust
Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay
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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.
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
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An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
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Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
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a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess