Hate Crime and Public Order Bill
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Public order and liberal doublethink
Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned
Don’t criminalise support
The government should change course on Clause 9
Is my t-shirt a hate crime?
Yesterday we glimpsed what Scotland’s new hate-free utopia might look like
How the Hate Crime Bill defies Scottish tradition
With a stroke of the legislative pen, Holyrood has made Scotland the most stringent regulator of speech in the UK
Mind your language – even in your own home
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill criminalises insulting language – even if nobody heard it outside your own living room
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
