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Flag-burning is free speech, whatever Trump says Politics

Flag-burning is free speech, whatever Trump says

26th August 2025
Why won’t the police let us call shoplifters ‘scumbags’? Free Speech

Why won’t the police let us call shoplifters ‘scumbags’?

12th August 2025
Rushanara Ali is everything wrong with Starmer’s Labour Politics

Rushanara Ali is everything wrong with Starmer’s Labour

8th August 2025
Kneecap’s nauseating free-speech hypocrisy Free Speech

Kneecap’s nauseating free-speech hypocrisy

7th August 2025
Regime literature is stifling the Edinburgh book festival Culture

Regime literature is stifling the Edinburgh book festival

5th August 2025
Edinburgh University’s war on the Enlightenment Identity Politics

Edinburgh University’s war on the Enlightenment

3rd August 2025
The Manchester Airport brawl was not a ‘George Floyd’ moment Identity Politics

The Manchester Airport brawl was not a ‘George Floyd’ moment

1st August 2025
Why are the police enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws? Free Speech

Why are the police enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws?

28th July 2025
Starmer joins the ‘blockers’ Politics

Starmer joins the ‘blockers’

24th July 2025
Oleksandr Usyk is the sporting hero we all need Sport

Oleksandr Usyk is the sporting hero we all need

21st July 2025
The Sycamore Gap tree trial and Britain’s tyranny of twee UK

The Sycamore Gap tree trial and Britain’s tyranny of twee

19th July 2025
Why was a schoolgirl punished over a Union Jack dress? Free Speech

Why was a schoolgirl punished over a Union Jack dress?

15th July 2025

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Why do so many kids now have special educational needs? Politics

Why do so many kids now have special educational needs?

14th July 2025
Michel Houellebecq: the prophet of Europe’s decay Long-reads

Michel Houellebecq: the prophet of Europe’s decay

13th July 2025
<em>The Salt Path</em>: did truth get lost on the way? Culture

The Salt Path: did truth get lost on the way?

12th July 2025
Why Australia’s mushroom-murder trial gripped the world World

Why Australia’s mushroom-murder trial gripped the world

7th July 2025
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