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.

Unconscious bias training. What’s the point of having a huge majority if Tories can’t say no to it?

Taxpayers are going to have to pick up the bill for a pseudoscientific method that’s prejudiced in itself.

Joy Morrissey: From people being ‘cancelled’, to trends at universities, censorship cannot become the new normal

Only through free and open debate can we make the greatest scientific and policy-making strides.

James Somerville-Meikle: The SNP’s overhaul of hate crime legislation is a threat to freedom of expression in Scotland

Criminal behaviour under the new law would be based on offence caused, rather than intended – a significant difference to England and Wales.

Eric Kaufmann: A chilling effect is taking place at British universities. An Academic Freedom Bill can change that.

There is a mistaken view that threats to freedom stem from the state, but peer pressure can equally result in “despotism of custom”.

Lack of viewpoint diversity at universities threatens us all

Researchers estimated that “a third and half of those reviewing a grant bid would mark it lower if it took a right-wing perspective”

Free speech for Wiley?

The right to it must be championed even when – no: especially when – remarks are made that we find reprehensible.

“If universities can’t defend free speech, the Government will”, said Williamson in February. He meant it.

The Education Secretary’s Higher Education Restructuring Regime is an important step towards fighting cancel culture.

WATCH: “This goes way beyond irritating wokery, this is a fundamental attack on the Enlightenment”

“It’s the single most worrying intellectual current that we have lived through”, Daniel Hannan explains in this extract from our latest live event.

Darren Grimes: Today, it’s Conservatives who are the real rebels – against woke conformity and the cancel culture

The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.

FREE ConservativeHome Live event with Daniel Hannan on the future of freedom

What does the future hold for individual liberty, freedom of expression, and private enterprise? Join us for our next event at 7pm on Wednesday 15th July.

Mark Lehain: Two-thirds of adults are concerned about political correctness. That’s why I’ve started the Campaign for Common Sense.

Groupthink and blame culture have had a detrimental effect on our debates. It’s time we stopped walking on eggshells.