Hate Crime
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
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
The state of hate
The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill
Call it kidnap
Do not write this off as a simple case of overzealous policing
What are the police good for?
British cops have to focus on actual crimes
The Irish experiment
Irish politicians are seeking “modernisation” without a clear sense of what that means
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
