Free Speech
How do we perceive the world?
This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge
If you don’t have something compliant to say…
“Mandatory duties” under the Equality Act leave employers with little alternative but silent lunches
Can Cambridge cope with Jordan Peterson?
His visit tests the self-appointed judiciary of acceptable ideas
The hounding of a female academic
What this tells us about policing
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Broken news
Binding stations to strict impartiality regulations deprives people of watching partisan news programmes even if they want to
Bullied
The persecution of Kathleen Stock is not about free speech
Failing their own
The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views
The paradox of free speech
If the Civil Service wants to retain its reputation for political impartiality, then it needs to exclude those who promote only certain kinds of politics
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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
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation