Freedom
Academic freedom is stuck in legal limbo
The government must clarify how the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 is going to be enforced
Mind your business Britain
A struggling government turns to prohibition and regulation; a restless public may yet rediscover its taste for freedom.
We must protect freedom for its own sake
Defend the countryside not merely out of tradition, but for liberty
Hitting the trail
What does the government have against rural life?
Can Britain handle free speech?
We need liberty but we also need restraint
Preaching is not a crime
What Shaun O’Sullivan’s case tells us about the threat to liberty
No word should be inherently unsayable
Context matters — whatever the language police might say
Public health versus the public
Public health authorities hate it when consumers speak for themselves
Against Awaab’s Law
In defence of damp and mouldy tenancies
Exposing the anti-gambling agenda
Don’t bet on hearing good arguments
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
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Farage: I’m not worried