Free Speech
Freeing Speech
A new report is gratifyingly pro-freedom and pro-free speech
Baby steps
The Government won’t ban pro-life campaigners from abortion clinics
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
The rare breed of the conservative rock star
It is a strange world we live in when a musician’s personal politics leads to as much uproar as Winston Marshall’s case has
Yes we can hate GB News
It’s not Oliver Dowden’s business to tell us whom we may boycott
Cowardice calls to cowardice
The unworthy heirs of Millicent Fawcett
The new network for gender-critical academics
Welcome news for radical feminists and supporters of free speech
Cancelling Christians
Billy Graham wouldn’t be welcomed into Britain today
Fighting back against the censors
Dan Hitchens reports on the groups who are taking the battle for free speech forward by speaking truth to power
What does “religious literacy” mean for free speech?
The APPG on Religion in the Media’s report into “religious literacy” in the media is deeply flawed in its understanding of Islam in particular
Most Read
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
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be