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Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch politicians for amusement and listen to comedians for their political [...]

I'm just coming to the end of a four-week speaking tour Down Under and have spotted some worrying signs of what our new government might have in store for us, [...]

Hardly a day goes by without another story of academics clamping down on free speech. Dons at Buckingham University are the latest to express outrage at a proposed 'heterodox' (i.e. [...]

James Delingpole and I had a blazing row on our weekly podcast on Monday. We were discussing the recent departure of Mark Steyn from GB News following a bust-up over [...]

As a defender of free speech, I'm used to taking up the cudgels on behalf of unsavoury people. To quote Lord Justice Sedley in a famous High Court judgment in [...]

Monday wasn't the best day for the government to launch Online Harms, its white paper on internet regulation. As Sajid Javid was proudly proclaiming that Britain would have the toughest [...]

How hard is it for women to talk freely about sex, gender and the law? Not very, I used to think. I'd heard about a few no-platforming incidents on campuses, [...]

'There. I said it.' That phrase, and the attitude it strikes, says something pretty specific. It doesn't just say: here's what I think. It says: 'Here's what I think, and, [...]

Last week I went to hear Jung Chang and Jon Halliday talk about their new biography of Mao Tse-tung at a lecture in memory of the Great Helmsman of Moderation, [...]