Online Safety Bill
Scrap the Online Safety Bill
The blunt of legislation could steamroller valid criticisms
TikTok criminals off our streets
The problem is the crime, not it being seen online
The dangers of “safety”
Ill-defined clauses make the Online Safety Bill a threatening prospect
Punishing the innocent
Why must we shift the burden of responsibility for crime?
The Online Safety Bill is still far from perfect
Do you want Nicola Sturgeon deciding what you can say?
Against Tory tinkering
Bin the Online Safety Bill
The many rooms of British law
Has British legislation become too complex to be understood?
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
