Protests
The new reality of remembrance
We have lost a chance to build a more united narrative
Ban the protest
Against the pathology of tolerance
How far is too far when it comes to protest?
Against the notion of competing rights
The right to protest is not absolute
Freedom to protest should by constrained by freedom from violence
The decline and fall of community cohesion
We need a more substantive model of belonging
Don’t get squishy on free speech
Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty
Think about the consequences
Gender-critical women are being courageous, but they should not have to be
Conscience and the courts
It’s called jury service, not jury suggestions
Justified sinners
Green activists want to do the crime but not the time
Just stop illegality
Protest is no excuse for causing significant harm
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
