Nudists
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Why do we need a privacy elite?
The world has conformed to Silicon Valley’s way of doing business
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term