offence
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
I reserve the right to upset you
Only idiots think we should succumb to the special pleading of intolerant majorities
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business