Free Speech
We must get serious about being intolerant of intolerance
History is clear: excepting blasphemy from freedom of expression causes far more and far greater suffering than it prevents
Julie Burchill – a national treasure?
The former Queen of the Groucho Club, for all her contradictions, is a rare voice of courage in an increasingly conformist world
Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma
Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game
Free speech is under threat in Northern Ireland
New hate crime proposals could make Northern Ireland the least free part of the UK
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
The sound of silence
View from Oxford: a letter to the Vice-Chancellor
The Establishment doesn’t understand free speech
The Government needs to bite the bullet and demonstrate political conviction over free speech
With free speech, practise what you preach
How one Edinburgh student was censored by the student newspaper promoting free speech
Understanding France’s newest terrorism
Lockdown interrupted terrorism, but the post-lockdown West is more permissive
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
“Forced”
Here they walk, they can do no other
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
