Press freedom
Revealed: the press regulator’s leaked guidelines on Islamophobia
If truthful reporting risks increasing tension between communities, should it still be published? Do journalists have a social duty to…
The press regulator must not turn into a religious thought police
Next year I will begin my fifth decade as a working journalist. As a writer, as an executive — and…
The new tycoons
The giants of the internet have long said that they are not publishers but mere platforms — or couriers —…
Sex, lies, dominatrixes and tax returns - the sorry state of British scandal
The confected scandal around the Panama papers is part of a concerted and sinister attempt to change what counts as private
Meet the intellectuals leading France to the right
The nation’s intellectuals are being roiled by issues of immigration, sovereignty and freedom of expression
You can do anything (but you shouldn’t): the brave new world of internet morality
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
Ipso: a great new way for bullies to muzzle the press
One of the fundamental principles of English common law is that you are innocent until proven guilty. And rightly so,…
Why is Len McCluskey paying Carter-Ruck to threaten me?
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
The attack on Charlie Hebdo is an attack on freedom
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lambasts, attacks and lampoons absolutely everybody. Its targets include all religions, all identity groups,…
Every 73 seconds, police use snooping powers to access our personal records. Who'll rein them in?
Police are using an anti-terror law to run wild in the public’s mobile phone records
Our suicidal newspapers are throwing press freedom away
Civil war within the British press threatens a free society
Spectator letters: Press regulation, heroic Bulgarians and the case for Scotch on the rocks
Beyond the law Sir: In your leading article of 28 June you make the point that the hacking trial demonstrates…
Spectator letters: Bereaved parents against press regulation, and a defence of Tony Benn
Why we need a free press Sir: As bereaved parents and (to borrow from some signatories of last week’s advertisement)…
Ten reasons why conservatives should take Edward Snowden seriously
So why are British conservatives determined to ignore his revelations?
How Britain invented freedom - and why we need to save it now
It’s time to rediscover the original Bill of Rights
Rod Liddle: Is Hugh Grant a pawn of the mad metropolitan left?
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
