Free Speech
What did YOU do in the Great Culture War, Daddy?
The British public will not stay forever silent as their values and beliefs are attacked
Free speech, councillors and new disqualification rules
Proposed local government requirements would greatly impinge on freedom of speech
Higher education can make you stupid
Ironically, a denial of academic political bias reveals bias, pretension, and pseudo-intellectualism
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
Libertarians and progressives are too irresponsible for freedom
Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism
The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
Is Scotland’s Hate Speech Bill so bad?
Even prominent SNP supporters are appalled by the proposed legislation
Silenced in Court
The ECHR thinks a country is beyond the pale if it allows its citizens to say what they like
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
Fired charity boss restored
Nick Buckley who was sacked for criticising BLM is now back in charge of his charity
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
