Free Speech
The battle is not the war
Free speech defenders should not celebrate prematurely
On trial for a question
The hunting of a Finnish heretic
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
We need new legislation to force banks to respect free speech
Rethinking “free speech”
Censorship is not only desirable but necessary if a democratic society and its laws are to function correctly
Union blues
The directors of Adult Human Female explain why they are taking their trade union to tribunal
Scrap the Online Safety Bill
The blunt of legislation could steamroller valid criticisms
Cambridge in decline?
Censorious tendencies have not conquered the university yet
The silence should be deafening
Professor Matt Cook has underestimated the impact of censorship on women
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
The article Cherwell killed
Higher education must stop excluding disagreement
Most Read
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
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
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
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus