Free Speech
On Britishness
Having that debate
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
Don’t buffer the truth about censorship zones
This is an attack on freedom and choice
Against Tory tinkering
Bin the Online Safety Bill
The police are enabling Islamic intolerance
Where can we provoke if not at Speakers’ Corner?
Faith on trial
Christian beliefs have yet to receive protection under law
The many rooms of British law
Has British legislation become too complex to be understood?
Maya Forstater’s victory
Maya’s vindication in court is a triumph for all women
Human rights and legal wrongs
Why doesn’t British legislation protect free speech?
The myth of liberal neutrality
The culture war in our universities is sweeping away cherished illusions
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
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone