Andrew Lewer: It’s time to turn off the taxpayer funding of left-wing student union campaigning

Judging by its social media activity, the National Union of Students’ main current focus is ‘decolonising the curriculum’.

Radical: A University lesson from the Kathleen Stock fracas. It’s harder to support her if you’re a younger academic.

Not when they know that their peers – and the academic administrators they depend on for preferment – are watching for any ‘misstep’.

Why shouldn’t Tories use Parler?

The app was never about absolute free speech, but promoting conversations between different political groups.

Toby Young: O’Brien is wrong – censorship is never the answer

Our columnist took issue with Lockdown Sceptics in his article yesterday. The Editor of that site replies.

John Bald: The use of provocative language to stimulate thinking is a teaching style that has become unfashionable

The headmaster of Eton has used the Equality Act to justify suppressing free speech at the school. That he stays in post is Eton’s loss.

An Eton mess

One of the school’s teachers has been fired for making a video about differences between men and women.

Mary Douglas: Defending freedom of speech as a local councillor was a battle worth fighting

It is essential for good relationships and good choices. It enables us to explore together what it is to be human.

Gary Powell: Local Authorities must play their part in defending freedom of speech and religion

If we allow the Left to impose their own ideology as the unassailable cultural norm, then we diminish the responsibilities of elected office.

Garvan Walshe: Macron is running out of time in which to prevail against the far left, far right – and Islamist extremism

After the beheading of Samuel Paty, there are huge questions for the president as to how he can prevent such an atrocious crime again.

Daniel Hannan: Overstretched – that’s how our police see themselves. So how have they found time to hound a young Geordie journalist?

It seems highly unlikely that the action against Grimes will result in a prosecution, let alone a conviction. But that doesn’t make it OK.

Fight crimes not Grimes

Patel should haul in Dick for an interview without coffee. Meanwhile, Loughton intends to raise the case at the Home Affairs Select Committee.

Interview: Nigel Biggar says human rights are not enough and the British Empire was good as well as bad

If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.

Conservatives can’t be neutral about culture

Clashes over Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion are noisy, nasty – and, by definition, impossible for Johnson to keep out of.

Gary Powell: Conservative councillors should strongly oppose extreme-Left gender politics

To be sacked simply for saying that biological men cannot become biological women is outrageous.

Tune in to our next ConservativeHome Live event – with special guest Katharine Birbalsingh

The Free School pioneer kicks off our Autumn series – join us to hear her views on education reform, the return to schooling, and freedom of expression.