Free Speech
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?
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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together