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Stuart Waiton
Singing freely across the Old Firm divide
Both Celtic and Rangers fans need to come together to oppose the Scottish government’s sectarianism bill.
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| Wednesday 2 November 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
No more room for ‘the huddled masses’
While New York celebrates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, America shows little desire to welcome immigrants.
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| Monday 17 October 2011 |
Jacob Mchangama
Lars von Trier and the dogma of hate speech
Yes, the Danish director’s comments about Hitler were dumb. But no one should be prosecuted for what they say.
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| Thursday 13 October 2011 |
Nick Thorne
From snap happy to ban happy
The farce of a dad who was told not to photograph his daughter shows that we’re not always better safe than sorry.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Taking the liberal out of the Lib Dems
Telling families how to raise their kids, imprisoning journalists and banning Page 3 – welcome to the Illiberal Party.
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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
The Battle of Cable Street it wasn’t
Dancing around to music while 3,000 policemen prevent right-wingers from marching does not echo the events of 1936.
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat
In the past, backward villagers would invest a goat with the sins of the village and then cast it out. Feminists tried the same trick with DSK.
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| Thursday 21 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Why the state should butt out of our personal lives
It is a sign of the times that the only debate we seem to have about nudging is ‘does it work?’ rather than ‘what gives them the right?’.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch crusade?
What the News of the World is alleged to have done is terrible and indefensible. But the fury about it is being driven by something else.
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| Monday 27 June 2011 |
Frank Furedi
An unholy marriage of snobbery and snideyness
The cultural elite’s support for gay marriage is more about distinguishing themselves from homophobic plebs than fighting for equal rights.
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| Wednesday 8 June 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Is this just ‘ID cards without the cards’?
The Lib-Cons' proposal for an Identity Assurance Service confirms that privacy counts for little in the corridors of power.
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| Monday 23 May 2011 |
Tim Black
A demeaning epidemic of injunctionitis
Lord Neuberger’s report on the superinjunctions affair is a reminder that the state doesn't trust us to judge what we read.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
Tessa Mayes
Post-Mosley, free speech is still the loser
Who needs the ECHR to censor what we talk about when we’ve got our own injunction-happy High Court doing it anyway?
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The war between fact and fallacy in US politics
When a senator excuses an erroneous comment by saying ‘it was not intended to be factual’, where’s the line between reality and fantasy?
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Tim Black
On the wrong track over iPhone privacy
Campaigners should worry less about gadgets recording our locations and more about why society doesn't value privacy.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
Frank Furedi
The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
Mick Hume
It’s not 1981 all over again
There might be more cynicism about this royal wedding than Charles and Diana’s – but what’s good about that?
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| Monday 18 April 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Up the Yid Army!
The campaign to cleanse Britain’s football terraces of the Y-word is a patronising assault on Tottenham Hotspur fans’ pride and identity.
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| Tuesday 12 April 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
An Observer of the public’s ‘speech crimes’
Why did one of Britain’s oldest liberal papers collude with the state in the arrest of a man for expressing an idea?
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| Monday 11 April 2011 |
Tim Black
The brassnecked hypocrisy of these invaders of privacy
Yes, the News of the World has behaved badly, but for New Labour bigwigs to complain about being snooped on... you couldn’t make it up.
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