IDS is the heir to Beveridge
If the spirit of ’45 lives on anywhere, it is in the coalition’s welfare reforms
- 10 June 2013
The shabby deceit of BBC journalism
Embarrassed by their own lacklustre work, Auntie’s reporters refuse to acknowledge the graft of others
- 7 June 2013
Trannyshambles: Left in disarray over freedom of speech
The freedom to offend others is a cornerstone of a grown-up society
- 18 January 2013
A response to Nick Cohen: Legal highs and lows
Nick Cohen may be right on a lot of things, but the English legal industry is not one of them. It's a sector we should have pride in
- 20 December 2012
The life and death of Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm was the Marxist version of David Irving. Why is his death any more worthy of mourning?
- 2 October 2012
Freedom of the press now concerns us all
Nick Cohen condemns Lord Justice Leveson for failing to get to grips with the real issues surrounding free speech and privacy in the digital age
- 6 July 2012
Laurie Penny: Johann Hari's final victim?
Milo Yiannopoulos takes no pleasure in a witch-hunt currently brewing on Twitter as the penny finally drops
- 17 April 2012
Loony Left: 'Don't go to the doctor if it harms the environment' edition
This week's edition of Loony Left is, we agree, Galloway heavy again. But who can resist when the man just oozes ridiculousness...?
- 6 April 2012
Ken4London: Divide and Rule politics from Bradford to London
Respected voices on the left are coming out against Ken Livingstone and his Gallowayan tactics, yet the majority of the party remain silent. Our UK Political Editor Harry Cole asks why
- 3 April 2012
How the left turned against the Jews
Anti-Semitism has never been confined to the Right. Its latest manifestation is the left-wing campaign to undermine Israel
- 2 April 2012
These pseudonymous protesters are like real-life comment trolls.
No one takes anonymous comment trolls seriously; we just assume they’re expressing impotent rage. So why, when precisely the same thing is happening on our streets, is anyone bothering to listen to what these petulant, work-shy people have to say?
- 24 October 2011
In answer to your question: why the Iranian cause isn't attracting popular support.
It is going to be very difficult to make Iran a popular cause. The Iranian regime's position is strengthened by the fact that it is virulently anti-western and therefore, in the minds of many western activists, worthy of sympathy.
- 7 October 2011
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