Free Speech
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
