Publish and be Damned
Good news from the government on freedom of speech – the first time, we believe, that those words have been written in that order since the lapse of press licensing regulations in 1694. As Rhys...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
As press regulation makes its way towards the statute books, like the procession of some noisy and sinister circus into the world’s most gullible town, let us at least try to bear in mind the very...
View ArticleAnglodämmerung
The end of three centuries of separation between press and state in the United Kingdom is not just a milestone in the individual political history of one particular country: it is yet another victory...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, and some thoughts on events in Paris
“I can answer for myself, and I hope I may for others, that the liberty of communicating our sentiments to the public freely and honestly, shall not be tamely given up, nor, I trust, forced out of...
View ArticleRhodes to Perdition
Oxford University, famed throughout the world for being the one that isn’t Cambridge, is apparently seething with controversy over the reputation of Victorian philanthropist Cecil J Rhodes. Oriel...
View ArticleJordan B Peterson arrives in the Old Country
“I can’t believe how this is being spun. It’s mindblowing…” Thus spake Jordan B Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor, as the United Kingdom’s vast and mighty opinion factories – the dark,...
View ArticleThe Whiggery of Dune
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend towards each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him...
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