Free Speech
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
Free speechers are missing the point
The newly announced Higher Education Bill won’t be the great champion of free speech that people think it will be
Queen’s Speech 2021: Free speech pendulum swings both ways
Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech to parliament confirmed that the government is yet to decide where it stands on freedom of speech
Is a victory for freedom of speech in sight?
On the second day of Maya Forstater’s appeal, Josephine Bartosch says victory would result in heterodox thinkers breathing a sigh of relief
Free speech needs a law
Face the problem as it is — the modern academy is running on different train-tracks to liberal humanist thinking
Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General