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Defund the BBC
The leadership of the UK’s public broadcaster has resigned amid a crisis of trust. That is not enough.
Melanie Phillips
How King Charles Ended Prince Andrew
The palace’s long, humiliating dance around Andrew and the Epstein scandal is finally over.
Tina Brown
London Falling: How the Birthplace of Free Speech Became a Censor’s Paradise
This week's Breaking History podcast traces the life of John Stuart Mill to understand why free expression is under threat across the pond.
Eli Lake
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The Intifada Comes to Britain
The Yom Kippur attack in Manchester wasn’t a manifestation of a distant war—it was an attack on British Jews on British soil, fueled by years of…
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I’m Leaving the UK
I no longer wanted to live in a country where being Jewish means living behind security fences and hiding who we are.
Ben Freeman
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Manchester Attack and the Subversion of Britain
Keir Starmer described the terror attack in Manchester as ‘absolutely shocking.’ But nothing at all about this violence was shocking.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Arrested Again—for Holding a Sign
The UK’s clampdown on free expression snags 75-year-old Rose Docherty—for the second time. Her alleged crime: offering to chat outside a hospital that…
Josh Code
Niall Ferguson and Tina Brown Discuss Our Own Gilded Age
Tariffs, immigration restrictions, and the ultrarich flaunting their wealth: Why today feels like the late nineteenth century all over again.
The Free Press
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Britain’s Free Speech Crisis—and Ours
Five British police officers just arrested a comedian for his posts on X. As J.K. Rowling put it: ‘This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.’
The Editors
I Posted on X. The British Police Arrested Me.
I was arrested at Heathrow, thrown in a cell, rushed to the hospital as my blood pressure spiked, and then silenced online—all for posting on social…
Graham Linehan
Inside Britain’s Working-Class Uprising
Migrant-hotel protests, gender ideology wars, the grooming-gang scandal—ordinary people are pushing back against the luxury beliefs of Britain’s elite…
Brendan O’Neill
Britain’s War on Speech Comes for the Pub
The UK’s speech police have that most British tradition in their crosshairs: banter.
Dominic Green
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