Freedom
In defence of counter-protest
The police’s “facilitation” model is too close to being an endorsement of mob rule
Brits have not lost their appetite for freedom
British people want to be treated like adults, not ordered around by the nanny state
Compulsory purchase orders are legalised theft
Expanding housing must not come at the expense of respecting private property
So, cancel culture is real and bad now?
We should all oppose attacks on freedom of speech, but not only when it suits us
Freedom takes work
We have to protect free speech from overbearing bosses
The road to online Hell is paved with good intentions
The Online Safety Act is a disaster for freedom and innovation
VPN nation
Overbearing laws are encouraging a breakdown in trust
The Online Safety Act is an abomination
It is making us less free, not more safe
Ireland’s assault on encryption should concern us all
Between authoritarian politics and corporate self-interest, basic freedoms should be protected
The Centre for Media Monitoring is a threat to free expression
We cannot allow reporting on Islamism to be demonised and suppressed
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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
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival