Free Speech
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
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
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
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport