The Law Commission
Freeing Speech
A new report is gratifyingly pro-freedom and pro-free speech
Freedom of speech awakens?
Good news from court, but the fact that it got this far shows it’s an uphill struggle for freedom of speech
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
