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Rehabilitating prisoners matters
Debating Matters Beyond Bars has been a fantastic project to get prisoners thinking and helping them to prepare for the outside world as active and able…
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Claire Fox
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Mo Lovatt
Suffer the children? The dangers of expanding the realm of mental health
This is an edited version of my foreword to an important new report by Lucy Beney for the Family Education Trust.
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Claire Fox
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The Equality Act isn't working
In a guest post, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don't Divide Us, explains why the Act seems to be exacerbating divisions and encouraging workplace…
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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
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Inside The Lords: from brittle Labour to surging Reform
Micro-managing regulations, banter bans and bureaucratic virtue signalling - Claire reports from inside parliament.
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Claire Fox
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Andrew Doyle: ‘People are realising that woke is deeply authoritarian’
In a wide-ranging interview, Claire Fox talks to the author and comedian about his new book, 'The End of Woke', and why there is much still to be done…
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Claire Fox
The Memorisers and the language control of the 2020s
Author Rosemary Jenkinson on the problems with the publishing industry’s current obsession with identity and the wider policing of language.
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Rosemary Jenkinson
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May 2025

Understanding our great upheaval
The books and ideas behind the Academy 2025
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Claire Fox
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Jacob Reynolds
The EU is manufacturing misinformation
A new report reveals how Brussels has spent €649million waging a propaganda war on free speech in the name of fighting 'disinformation' and 'hate…
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Norman Lewis
EU summit: why a 'reset' won't 'rebuild trade'
In a guest post, trade expert Catherine McBride explains why the Labour government’s plans for closer ties with the EU won’t solve our economic…
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Catherine McBride
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The scary new powers to trawl through our bank accounts
Claire Fox sits down with Jasleen Chaggar of Big Brother Watch and author Timandra Harkness to talk about the latest attack on our privacy.
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Claire Fox
Two cheers for Labour’s trade deals
Neither agreement is perfect, but the government should be credited nonetheless – and constantly reminded that it was all possible thanks to Brexit.
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Rob Lyons
FINAL WEEKEND TO APPLY: Living Freedom Summer School 2025
Anyone with a passion for freedom and free speech – and a thirst for ideas, discussion and debate – should come to this summer school. Please share…
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Felice Basbøll
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