Andy Murray shouldn't cancel Margaret Court
Cancel culture has hit the world of tennis – again. Top British player Andy Murray has reignited a torturous debate…
Cancelling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s late-Eighties to early-Nineties comedies have not gone down in history as great triumphs. Films like Junior and Twins…
Binning Fawlty Towers does nothing to solve racism
We’ve done it. We’ve solved racism. And who’d have thought that all it would take was a few judicious edits…
The march of progressive censorship
It’s official: criticising Black Lives Matter is now a sackable offence, even here in the British Isles, thousands of miles…
Why is Ben & Jerry’s lecturing us about 'white supremacy'?
When this chapter in America’s history of its struggle against racism is written, two names will stand out among all…
Ricky Gervais is right about sanctimonious celebs
Do you who hasn’t had a good corona war so far? Celebrities. Throughout this crisis, many of them seem to have…
Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscars speech was beyond a joke
The 2020 Oscars will go down in history for two things: Bong Joon-ho’s brilliant film Parasite becoming the first foreign-language…
The trans-sceptic academic who now needs bodyguards for protection
‘You can’t change sex – biologically, that is impossible.’ That, by most people’s standards, is a simple observable truth. But…
Campus free speech is a thing of the past
Not that long ago, the sorts of views that were verboten on a university campus were genuinely out-there and nasty:…
The bizarre war on sombreros
Many Brits still bristle at the importation of Halloween. It’s easy to see why. It is an American holiday that…
What Extinction Rebellion and the People’s Vote campaign have in common
Extinction Rebellion (XR) has announced it will finish its ‘Autumn Uprising’ earlier than planned in order to make way for…
Is it illegal to mock this drug dealer’s haircut?
Is it a crime to mock a criminal’s unfortunate hairstyle? Police in South Wales seem to think so. Last week, Gwent Police…
Selfie-surveillance: Who needs Big Brother when we constantly film ourselves?
Did you see the Welsh Tory MP David Davies and a pro-Brexit protester arguing outside parliament, pointing cameras at one…
From ancient Egyptian smut to dissent-by-currency: I object at the British Museum reviewed
‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,’…
