Hurrah for the Eton master’s victory. But how much time and money has been wasted on common sense campaigns?

Issues that could be settled in the pub are being taken to regulators and the High Court.

Is racism in Britain increasing?

The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 5) Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.

“We have been surprised by the EU’s willingness to resort quite quickly to threats”. Lord Frost’s Königswinter speech.

“We do have a challenge…it is to respond to the new political configuration here without falling into the trap of statism.”

Daniel Hannan: We cannot allow our solution to the problem of illiberalism to depart from liberal principles

As the culture war becomes more vicious, we lose sight of what ought to be the elemental precepts of a liberal society.

Emily Carver: If our choices are lawful, can we really trust the state to judge which ones will harm us?

Much like a parent intent on disciplining their naughty child, this Government’s preferred policy tool seems to be prohibition.

Gavin Williamson: Skills, jobs and freedom. My priorities for this week’s Queen’s Speech – and the year ahead.

Our new Lifelong Loan Entitlement will give everyone the equivalent of four years of post-18 education to use over their lifetime.

The socially distanced and politically distanced Queen’s Speech

Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.

Emily Carver: To bolster free speech in universities, we need laws taken off the statute book, rather than added to it

The Government should instead look into reviewing the Equality Act, which makes these institutions subject to its harassment provision.

Andrew Tettenborn: The Welsh Government’s flawed “anti-racist” instructions to local authorities

Concentration on “micro-aggressions” at work threatens to make any kind of workplace interaction a free speech minefield.

Philip Booth: Ordinary people have suffered under our hate crime rules. Patel is right to change the system.

Controversial but reasonable opinions can be the basis of a visit from the police or even arrest.

Free speech and the culture wars. It’s Fox to the rescue.

He gave a brave speech to the Adam Smith Institute on some of the most contentious issues of our time.

Iain Dale: Biden seems to forget his Defense Secretary’s name, and the media says nothing. Imagine if it had happened to Trump.

Plus: Piers Morgan wasn’t ‘cancelled’. And: We need a conversation on women’s safety.

Andrew Tettenborn: Protecting free speech at universities. The Government’s proposals are a start, but don’t go far enough.

It has a wonderful opportunity to preserve this value on campus. One that may not present itself again for some time.

Caroline ffiske: How non-crime hate incidents came into force. And why they should be reformed – or scrapped altogether.

Introduced with the best of intentions, they have grown and morphed beyond reason – more so than Macpherson could surely have imagined.