Hate
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The reality of hate
The West wouldn’t know what “hate” was if it punched them in the face
The state of hate
The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill
The weaponisation of hate
Reducing thought to emotion is overtly propagandistic
Liberal paradise lost
Elon Musk has freed Twitter from the “anti-hate” lobby –– and they’ve never forgiven him
Should the Government be policing hate?
No authority has any jurisdiction over our emotions, not even the worst of them
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
