Once again, the intolerant partnership of Islamists and progressives joined forces to attack peaceful conservatism and sanitise evil in a major European city.
Much of what happens next will hinge on interpretation and implementation by the police, and more importantly, Scotland’s opaque Crown Office prosecution service.
If you have Conservative Councils wasting staff time and Council Taxpayers money on damaging thought control sessions then what is the incentive to vote Conservative?
It might help if the new definition made a clearer distinction between extremism of belief and extremism of action. But it would be better still if it didn’t try to define extremism at all.
Public libraries aren’t worth having unless their users have access to a free range to what has been thought and said. Maintained schools need guidance on how to raise a generation of free-thinkers, not automatic-thinkers.
My reinstatement by CCHQ was a significant milestone, not just for me but for the broader conversation on the rights and freedoms that form the bedrock of our democracy.
The claim that the Tories are anti-Muslim because Lee Anderson was a Tory does not stack up when he was kicked out precisely because his views were incompatible with the party’s principles.
I contend that we are now in the early stages of a journey towards a post-democratic future. The philosophical foundations that once sustained our citizenship rights are decaying as fast as RAAC concrete.
We should own up: we don’t put a flag in our windows because we don’t want a brick through the glass. Equally, lapel pins are out: who wants to invite abuse? Intimidated, good people are doing nothing.
Our Atlantic partners might be a bit mad, but they still care – about their country, about its future. Polarisation has its many negative effects, but one of its positives is its ability to galvanise that passion.
I wouldn’t want my daughter to grow up in the patriarchal society portrayed in Pride & Prejudice – but that doesn’t mean she cannot be inspired by Elizabeth Bennett.
Preventing right-wingers from being discriminated against by corporate progressives is not going to be top of an incoming Labour government’s list of priorities.
If Suella Braverman wants to restore “common-sense policing”, she should start by overhauling the Public Order Act.
Like any tool, civil rights law and be used for good or ill. Parts of the left are committed to wielding it as a sword; conservative should be prepared, as Kemi Badenoch said of the UK’s Equality Act, to use it as a shield.
The attempt to shut down the National Conservatism conference in Belgium is a clear-cut case of abuse of power that has exposed a disturbing attitude towards freedom of expression and assembly.