Free Speech
Beware the thought police
Britain is now a country where you can be arrested for what’s in your head
Don’t criminalise support
The government should change course on Clause 9
The silence of women
Shouldn’t a talk show host be good at listening?
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
I reserve the right to upset you
Only idiots think we should succumb to the special pleading of intolerant majorities
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?
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent