Flat-earth theory isn't hate speech — but should it be platformed?

04/27/2021 - 8:00am

Should universities no platform flat-earthers? A paper in the new Journal of Controversial Ideas offers an interesting answer

Monday, April 26

Mario Draghi: don’t believe the media hype The Italian PM's EU 'revolution' is a fantasy

John McWhorter: white people should stand up to anti-racist ideologues Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer about race relations in America

Spare us the selective outrage on the lockdown protests Medical staff can't pick and choose — it undermines their authority

Why Sweden and Norway are more different than you think Comparing countries that may seem alike can obscure more than it reveals

Sunday, April 25

Invitation: Does the EU deserve to survive?

Saturday, April 24

Joe Biden takes a gamble on George Floyd Riding the ‘anti-racist’ wave may alienate large swathes of ordinary Americans

Friday, April 23

Donald Trump: the Weltgeist on Twitter Unwittingly or otherwise, the former president ushered in a new era

Highest level of borrowing since the War? Don’t worry about it! We should still be confident about our position coming out of the crisis

St George was actually Turkish — take that, racists! Aren't I clever and high status for pointing this out?

OnlyFans is an experiment in mass grooming The service harnesses the language of sexual liberation to exploit its users

Kristina Murkett

Will social psychology ever clean up its act? Too many famous findings in the field have turned out to be rubbish

Thursday, April 22

What Johan Giesecke missed out My fellow Swedish epidemiologist forgot to mention some important points

Martin Kulldorff

Are Christians more eurosceptic? We are guided more by inherited totemic beliefs than class

Vaccinating everybody may not help Africa Rich countries bulldoze poorer ones into submitting to their public health goals

Wednesday, April 21

Bret Weinstein: Democrats are riding the BLM wave But they don't have the power to control it

It’s time to unlock Parliament and pin-down government Lockdown curtailed parliamentary scrutiny — we need to bring it back

Will Matthew McConaughey become Texas’s next Governor? The actor's blank slate politics has drawn many admirers

Tuesday, April 20

In Germany, the Greens are headed for Government The election of Annalena Baerbock is a sign of the party’s new confidence

Church leaders: vaccine passports would be un-Christian Two of the 1200 signatories of a letter to the PM spoke to Freddie Sayers

Jesse Singal on fad psychology Freddie Sayers spoke to the science journalist about his new book

Join Bret Weinstein at tonight’s members event We'll be discussing BLM, the Chauvin trial and tensions in America

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler? It is not clear what this new title even means

Monday, April 19

Where does the Magnitsky movement end? Sanctioning individuals sounds like a good idea, but it's proving complicated

The European Super League shames the people’s game The plan violates the spirit and ethos of the sport

Why the new liberal elite is coming for the WASPs The debate over ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is just another cover for power dynamics

Mary Harrington

When will the ‘experts’ apologise for their Brexit predictions? The years of dire forecasts were not borne out by reality

The UK can’t be a secession free-for-all The idea that the UK is a 'voluntary union of nations' is a dangerous myth

Friday, April 16

The Left runs Joe Biden — not the other way around The President is bending over backwards to satisfy the Democrats’ 'woke' wing

Why does France’s youth support Marine Le Pen? The Right-wing leader is on course to gain young voters to next year's election

Withdrawal from Afghanistan is the wake up call Britain needs Perhaps now we will stop slavishly following the US into war

The SNP monopoly is finally breaking up Whatever happens in the election next month, new populist parties are emerging

Alastair Donald