Free Speech
Dissing Darth Vader
Longtime Scout leader Brian Walker paid the price for his Christian views
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe
Professor Gopal has the Varsity blues
Fighting antisemitism is not a “conflict of interest”
Miller’s victory
2021 will be remembered as the turning of the tide of gender ideology
A strident legacy
In the decade since his death, Christopher Hitchens’s weaknesses have become our own
May it please the court
Our elected representatives may finally wrest power back from the lawyers
War on words
A recent court case could give free speech advocates some serious leverage against the government
Did women in academia cause wokeness?
More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate
Mugged by misrepresentation
Mark Humphrys faces the loss of his university post, if the online mob succeeds
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
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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
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken