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The good, the bad and the ugly of the new Online Safety Bill
The new version of the Online Safety Bill seems, on the face of it, to be an improvement on the…
Has the Indyref ruling complicated Catalonian separatism?
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on Scottish independence will offer scant encouragement to separatists in Catalonia. The crux of the…
The Tories should defend free speech, not neglect it
The government’s Online Safety Bill is coming to look more and more like some ghastly juridical juggernaut: a vessel grimly unstoppable, even…
The New York Times does it again
Let me tell you a story, dear reader. It is about a land – a quasi-dictatorial kingdom no less – where locals…
The Online Safety Bill is still a censor’s charter
One of Rishi Sunak’s pledges was to remove the ‘legal, but harmful’ censorship clause that Boris Johnson was poised to…
Is Sunak tough enough on China?
When it comes to policy, the area where the least is known about Rishi Sunak’s views is foreign affairs. As…
China’s protests and the dark lesson of Hong Kong
It is easy to imagine that a dam might be bursting in China. There have been spontaneous street protests across…
Logjams and leaks plaguing parliament
It was Enoch Powell who once called the whips’ office ‘the sewers of parliament’. But it seems that – much…
Is Putin really to blame for this Belarusian minister’s sudden death?
Saturday’s news of the sudden death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei, as well as the rather terse nature of…
How revolutions begin, and how they can end
Across China, the world’s most populous nation and its second largest economy, scenes unprecedented since the Tiananmen Square massacre of…
What conservatives lack
A famous passage in the preface to Lionel Trilling’s book The Liberal Imagination is widely quoted and just as widely…
In the studio with Ye on Tim Pool’s podcast
Knoxville, Maryland Ye is not in Calabasas anymore. The superstar rapper, designer and now 2024 presidential candidate flew to western…
Showdown looms over China’s new ‘super-embassy’
All eyes tonight will be on Rishi Sunak when he addresses the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet. The Prime Minister is…
Why conservatives should consider antitrust against Microsoft
Amid the renewed energy around antitrust enforcement in recent years, one name has been notably missing: Microsoft. The antitrust villain…
Is Xi Jinping in trouble?
The Chinese people seem to have run out of patience with their country’s draconian Covid policies. After almost three years…
Why are wives still taking their husbands’ last names?
“Why don’t more men take their wives’ last names?” asked the Washington Post in a recent piece about a Maine…
Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind
Staging rebellions against their own government has become a way of life for many Tory MPs – but why choose…
The Wellcome Collection’s war on itself
If you, like me, have an unhealthy taste for depressing news, then you’ll have already heard about the Wellcome Collection’s…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Matt Hancock showed how Conservatives can win
It’s somehow appropriate that Matt Hancock finished third in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Third is…
Lying-in-State leaves its mark on parliament
The Lying-in-State of Her Majesty the Queen was widely hailed in September as a triumph. The organisation was slick, the…
Can Sunak get a grip on his party?
As Tory MPs ponder whether to stand down at the next election in the face of grim polling, the Prime…
Why ‘Uber for the countryside’ is a great idea
The disappearance of rural bus routes is one of the small tragedies of our time. It isn’t, alas, a very glamorous…
America is entering a golden age of democratic capitalism
America could be entering the ‘Great Stagflation’, defined by economist Noriel Roubini as ‘an era of high inflation, low growth,…
What Trump’s dinner with antisemites tells us about 2024
Well, it was quite a Thanksgiving week at Mar-a-Lago. For those just waking from their food comas, the Cliff Notes…
