Selina Todd
Free speech in an uncivil society
A climate of intolerance is threatening the pursuit of reason.
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests