Hate Crime
Misogyny is not a hate crime
Listing misogyny as a hate crime could have grave implications for freedom of speech
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
Is Scotland’s Hate Speech Bill so bad?
Even prominent SNP supporters are appalled by the proposed legislation
Silenced in Court
The ECHR thinks a country is beyond the pale if it allows its citizens to say what they like
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham