Free to Disagree
Is Scotland’s Hate Speech Bill so bad?
Even prominent SNP supporters are appalled by the proposed legislation
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
