Free Speech
Mire of conflicting duties
Acceptable speech turns into unjustified coercion as police stand by
The quiet cancellations
In the fearful climate of cancel culture, women and girls lose out — again
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
Dress code
Political agendas at work are fine, so long as they support the religion of Woke
Punch in the face
Police officers claim that the pro-life activist who “gave offence” is just as guilty as her attacker
Censorship by default
The PCSC Bill threatens ordinary people by criminalising “inconvenient” speech
Silenced at Speakers’ Corner
Hate crimes operate as a contemporary, de facto blasphemy law
Turning students into weapons
The control of free speech at universities is a first step on a path towards totalitarianism
In defence of proselytising
We should thank religious nuts for most of the liberal rights we take for granted
Stabbed for critiquing Islam
This is not the first time Hatun has been assaulted at Speakers’ Corner
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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
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind