TILAK DOSHI After a week of mass protests, Ireland was brought to a standstill. Farmers, truckers and hauliers blockaded motorways, ports and the country’s only oil refinery, leaving a third of petrol stations dry. The immediate […]
Keir Starmer ‘could impose internet bans on ADULTS’ warns peer in major censorship alert Baroness Fox warned that calls for social media bans were ‘authoritarian’ and driven by ‘moral panic’ LUCY JOHNSTONE Britain risks heading […]
DAVID BETZ AND MICHAEL RAINSBOROUGH The Age of ‘Isation’ is upon us. It has become a reflex to describe Britain’s current condition through borrowed endings: Ulsterisation, Balkanisation, Brazilianisation, South Africanisation, and, on a bad day, Lebanonisation. They are […]
Ofcom now sends the bill for policing the internet directly to the companies being policed, and the meter just started running. CAM WAKEFIELD There is something magnificently British about building a bureaucracy so brazen that […]
A parliamentary committee just proposed giving a GCHQ-adjacent agency the power to decide which speech counts as a national security threat. CINDY HARPER The UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee wants the government to build a new […]
Why Britain must adopt the Freedom of Speech Bill (2026) Michael Reiners, co-author of the Freedom of Speech Bill (2026) alongside Preston Byrne and Elijah Granet, argues that adoption of the Bill, by ascendant political […]
The justice system cannot try a rape case within four years. It cannot prosecute fraud at all. It let grooming gangs operate for decades. But it arrested 33 people a day for speech, and jailed […]
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right. AL LOXLEY Preston Byrne is a dual-qualified English solicitor […]
ANONYMOUS IT REPORTER How old are you? Sorry to ask such a personal question but I need to check you are old enough to read this article. I can’t remember the last time I was […]
Katie Lam: We will not fix our problems by telling people to stop talking about them KATIE LAM Speaking at a panel event hosted by the Demos think-tank, Liberal Democrat MP Max Wilkinson said that […]
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