Free Speech
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
Don’t get squishy on free speech
Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty
Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?
Yesterday’s censors are today’s free speech champions
Twelve things more arrestable than calling for jihad
Just so we know
Struggling with CRT in the workplace
We should resist the creeping spread of a Manichean model of social life
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
The diversity trap
Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people
Elon Musk and your digital soul
Don’t let Musk’s image blind you to his business ambitions
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
