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
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
