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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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Latin love, Hispanic hate
Spain and Argentina’s complex relationship is being strained by the World Cup
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform