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A welcome development, for once, for freedom in the UK. Me in the Speccie for Christmas Eve.
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Is this finally the end of non-crime hate incidents?
Roll up for a Christmas surprise on the policing front. According to a leak from the College of Policing to the Telegraph, since confirmed by its chairman and in all likelihood condoned by a governmen...
spectator.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Me on the undesirability of the ECHR and the antics of the UK Labour government.
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Starmer won’t fix the ECHR | Andrew Tettenborn | The Critic Magazine
The issue of the ECHR continues to dog the Labour Party. Reform and the Tories have committed to leaving the Convention outright, correctly seeing that it interferes in too many of our internal…
thecritic.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Me on religious education in the Catholic Herald.
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If you're rich don’t worry about the Supreme Court's ruling
The result of this decision is stark: unless you happen to be rich enough to afford ruinously expensive private education. For the well-heeled bankers and lawyers, bringing up the family according to ...
thecatholicherald.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A very successful morning training the new Baggage Handlers.
September 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Me in the Telegraph on why compulsory ID cards are a bum idea.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Me in the Daily Mail on why it matters that people were able to use zoning laws to prevent hotels in the UK being turned into displaced persons' camps.
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...
The Epping hotel judgment is a clean and fair application of the law
The Government's immigration policy of putting asylum seekers in hotels in some of the less well-off parts of the country has received a major blow
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August 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The problem of free speech in the UK
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Freedom takes work | Andrew Tettenborn | The Critic Magazine
An employment incident last week from Lancashire was both entirely predictable and at the same time deeply disturbing. Simon Pearson, an English teacher at FE institution Preston College…
thecritic.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The ICJ has got above itself on climate change.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/star...
Starmer must not kotow to the ICJ on climate change
Last week, 15 judges from the ICJ at the Hague, at the request of the UN General Assembly, pronounced solemnly on climate change.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Are YOU the most depressing book plate ever? YES, You ARE!
Bookplate with a series of six images illustrating a stick figure from the purchase of their first book to their books being unceremoniously tossed after death. Text reads "EX LIBRIS KNUD SCHØNBERG"
July 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Old vs new in British local government. The new, ie Reform UK, want councillors to be able to say what they like constrained only by the law. Reactionaries are spooked: "How can the Reform group strive for good governance when they want free speech?"
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Reform UK seeks to amend free speech laws for councillors
Darren Grimes tabled a motion to strengthen free speech protections in the code of conduct for elected members but his motives were questioned
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
How to win friends and influence people ...
July 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Tony Blair and his wife in sleaze story. What's surprising?
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July 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The lamb looks rather good eating.
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July 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A very encouraging growth in ECHR scepticism in the UK. The idea of leaving the human rights convention is now quite rightly becoming something sayable.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...
What Suella Braverman's plan for quitting the ECHR gets right
So far, calls to ditch the ECHR have suffered from a similar difficulty to that which faced the Leave movement.
www.spectator.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why the US is wrong to sanction Francesca Albanese (and it's not the reason you think).
www.spectator.co.uk/article/ther...
Francesca Albanese is insufferable, but don't sanction her
Among the many peripheral hangers-on at the UN, are members of a curious class of functionary known as special rapporteurs. Numbering about 80, these are in theory independent experts appointed by the...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
More pressure for the UK to leave the ECHR. And rightly so.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Leaving ECHR ‘will stop judges making political decisions’
Lord Lilley says ‘vague’ terms in which convention was drafted had enabled courts to extend their reach and override parliamentary decisions
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July 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This man has a point.
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The myth of Israel’s ‘killing fields’
Reports of the IDF deliberately killing civilians at aid centres are a blatant misrepresentation of the facts.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Fraser Myers is right in Spiked Online . Bob Vylan of Glasto fame is an unattractive little adolescent who's never grown out of trying to shock people for fun. But people like him -- and Lucy Connolly -- shouldn't have to do time for saying offensive things.
www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/30/b...
Bob Vylan must be free to be vile
There is never any justification for prosecuting ‘hate speech’.
www.spiked-online.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Why the Catholic Church had every right to deny communion to a person who voted for assisted dying. Me in the CH.
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Assisted suicide Communion row: why the state cannot dictate the sacraments - Catholic Herald
Relations between the Catholic Church and the British state have always been slightly delicate. Unfortunately, last week they suffered a worrying decline as a result of over-zealous action by the latt...
thecatholicherald.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Late capitalism, I salute you
June 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Brendan O'Neill super (and spot-on) on the UK Glastonbury festival.
www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/27/h...
How Glastonbury became a playpen for the turbo-smug and talentless
There is nothing countercultural about this annual gathering of correct-think farts.
www.spiked-online.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why academics do so love suppressing information.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
How the ‘experts’ got the grooming gang scandal so wrong
At this stage we can’t predict what the government’s new grooming gangs inquiry will say. But one thing is overwhelmingly likely: many will feel the heat. This includes police who stood back in the fa...
www.spectator.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Why is a UK government organisation trying to censor the internet in the US? Whether you love or hate 4Chan and their likes, this is a good question. See me in Spiked Online.
www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/26/o...
Ofcom is no match for the trolls of 4chan
Why has Britain’s online-safety regulator appointed itself as the world’s censor-in-chief?
www.spiked-online.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Some rare good news for European free speech.
europeanconservative.com/articles/new...
Victory for Freedom of the Press! Court Overturns Compact Magazine Ban
The ruling is a humiliating defeat for the German liberal elites.
europeanconservative.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I still can't see why only members of a given culture should make films about members of it. Others' viewpoints are always enlightening, even if you think them misguided.
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Danny Boyle on why he wouldn't make 'Slumdog Millionaire' now
'28 Years Later' director Danny Boyle has admitted that he would never make 'Slumdog Millionaire' in this day and age, "and that's how it should be."
faroutmagazine.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM