Free Speech
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
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
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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
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)