Free Speech
Censorship and the Holocaust
Silencing Bridgen for a poor choice of words is the real insult to the victims of totalitarianism
Beware the thought police
Britain is now a country where you can be arrested for what’s in your head
Don’t criminalise support
The government should change course on Clause 9
The silence of women
Shouldn’t a talk show host be good at listening?
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
I reserve the right to upset you
Only idiots think we should succumb to the special pleading of intolerant majorities
On Britishness
Having that debate
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
Don’t buffer the truth about censorship zones
This is an attack on freedom and choice
Against Tory tinkering
Bin the Online Safety Bill
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
