Julie Burchill
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Julie Burchill – a national treasure?
The former Queen of the Groucho Club, for all her contradictions, is a rare voice of courage in an increasingly conformist world
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
