Freedom
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
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
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.