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What can we do about 'lawless Britain'?
The authorities seem complacent and helpless in the face of blatant criminality.
 • Claire Fox and Austin Williams
Does the UK need a US-style First Amendment?
How can we change the law to guard free speech and build an anti-censorship culture to tackle the daily threats to free expression? A proposed new…
 • Claire Fox
The Hollowed Out State
Recent events confirm that the state is less and less capable of delivering what we need - and ever more concerned with controlling us. We'll be…
 • Jacob Reynolds
Thank God for the Together Alliance ‘anti-hate’ march (sort of)
Last Saturday's demonstration was a useful reminder of the importance of the right to protest - because it exposed the contradictions and frankly…
 • Jake Weston
Why I’ve changed my mind about banning social media for teenagers
Social-media bans for under-16s are the fashionable policy of the moment. So, we’re delighted to reproduce this article from Genspect’s Stella O’Malley…
 • Claire Fox and Stella O'Malley
Victory on ‘busybody’ fines in the House of Lords
Josie Appleton, director of the Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life, welcomes an amendment that would outlaw private firms from issuing fines for…
 • Josie Appleton and Claire Fox
Arts First: Tiffany Jenkins on art and the evolution of private life
The Arts & Society Forum podcast talks to the author of 'Strangers and Intimates: the rise and fall of private life' about how art has reflected ideas…
 • Wendy Earle
spiked summit: discount tickets offer
spiked's one-day event in London on 27 June is a brilliant opportunity to hear top-drawer speakers – and our paid Substack subscribers can get 20% off…
 • Claire Fox
The contradictions of conservative feminists opposing the womb transplant
Some conservatives seem to be stuck between demanding women have more children while expressing disgust at new medical breakthroughs that would allow…
 • Emma Gilland
Is Britain an 'island of strangers'?
With the government's social-cohesion strategy published this week, listen to our discussion at Battle of Ideas North and, for a different take, read…
 • Claire Fox
Lovesick or sick of love: romance through the ages
Ella Whelan on Wuthering Heights, Normal People and Jane Eyre - what has changed about our relationship with love stories?
 • Ella Whelan
What next for sovereignty?
Ahead of Battle of Ideas North in Manchester on Saturday, we are republishing Claire Fox's Letter on Liberty on why sovereignty matters as much today as…
 • Claire Fox
After Gorton & Denton: we need to build a politics that transcends identity
Claire Fox on what the by-election result tells us about British politics – and why Battle of Ideas North next Saturday is a great place to begin the…
 • Claire Fox
Battle Book Club: 'Flesh' by David Szalay
The Book Club returns in April, in partnership with The Booking Club podcast, to discuss the 2025 Booker Prize winner.
 • Emma Gilland
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