X
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
Confessions of an engagement farmer
Does professional trolling really pay?
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Tax hikes? Take a hike
Andy Burnham must get a grip on spending rather than squeezing the taxpayer
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived