Free Speech
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
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
Most Read
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
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent