Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Why Twitter matters
Twitter — or X if you must — is essential for bypassing traditional institutions
I hate engagement bait
Social media can be a tool for uncovering the truth, but also for obscuring it
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
We are all extremely online now
Hand-wringing about the “extremely online right” is futile and hypocritical
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act
Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it
Killing freedom to save it
The EU is threatening free speech in the name of democracy
Electronic exodus
Anglicans leaving Twitter for Bluesky is just a craving for liberal respectability
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop