Free Speech
Bring back blasphemy laws
Free speech is all very well, but that’s no excuse for being RUDE
What really happened in Nottingham
In 2022, women are no longer allowed to gather in public libraries
The People’s Republic of Worcester College
A student dares to cross the red quad and speak out about a shoddy show trial
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
Islamism, not social media, killed David Amess
Why won’t MPs and ministers speak frankly about the motives for his murder?
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
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Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic