04/27/2026 - 1:01am

Requiem for a cig The smoking ban is Cromwellian

Julie Burchill

01.02

Salwan Momika had a right to blaspheme The book burner deserved protection

Andrew Doyle

22.06

Should we let the kids be cats? Adults have ceded all moral judgement

Mary Harrington

15.02

Witchcraft isn’t subversive A nasty paradox runs through the WitchTock ethos

Esme Partridge

19.07

Are we free on Freedom Day? Liberalism was always going to be useless in a pandemic

Ed West

14.06

Why progressives don’t like The Lark Ascending The music of Vaughan Williams has become proxy for Brexit

Ben Cobley

20.03

The populist spirit of the Paris Commune One hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries were far more interested in democracy than feminism and Marx

Robert Tombs

04.03

Lord Sumption: civil disobedience has begun The retired Supreme Court justice believes we have no moral obligation to obey the law

Freddie Sayers

24.02

How lockdown changed us Like prisoners, we're grateful for the slightest glimpse of freedom — but did it have to be like this?

Freddie Sayers

19.01

The importance of obscenity A century after Ulysses was banned, a strange paradox remains at the heart of vulgarity

Andrew Doyle

14.01

Who really controls fertility? With reproductive politics, violence has a way of creeping in

Mary Harrington

23.12

Libertarianism never ends well A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear: An experiment in living without restrictions couldn't survive some hungry bears

Mary Harrington