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Will Alan Rusbridger apologise for the Guardian’s Republican cell?

Subscribers will know that I wrote in my column for the magazine this week about the revelations by former journalist Roy Greenslade that he was an active supporter of the IRA throughout the Troubles.

The U.K.’s Academic-Freedom Czar

A new official will try to keep campus debates unfettered

Macron and Merkel deserve condemnation, not adulation

Despite their outrageous comments on vaccines, the two leaders get a free pass from the Left

Why is the woke mob so scared?

The no-platforming of yet another academic raises uncomfortable questions about free speech

The Muslim Council of Britain should back off

The attack on BBC presenter Emma Barnett is designed to ensure no one can challenge it

The EU is tearing itself apart right before our eyes

Italy snubbed in its hour of need. France and Germany at each other’s throats. Hungary and Austria turning to Russian and Chinese vaccines…

My entry to the Martin McGuinness poetry prize

In these winter months, we must find our amusements where we can. And like many people I was amused to learn recently that the ‘Martin McGuinness Peace Foundation’ has announced a poetry competition in honour of the late IRA leader.

Will freedom always be just over the horizon?

At the beginning of Lockdown 1 we were told we needed to stay housebound for a number of weeks to ‘flatten the curve’.

I tried ‘unconscious bias training’. Shockingly, it proved a woke fraud

It is a pointless and divisive exercise which owes its existence to a collaboration of the dim, the opportunistic and the easily bullied

What has the New York Times got against Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not an easy person to cancel. She has survived the brutal murder of her colleague Theo van Gogh, lived through more than two decades of serious threats to her life and fled more countries than many people have visited.

Facebook’s incompetent censorship

Its hypocritical attempts to clamp down on ‘misinformation’ are ultimately self-defeating

Corrupt WHO was never going to get to the bottom of where Covid originated from

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had one job. To work out who-dunnit.