Labour is to allow the United Arab Emirates – an autocratic foreign government – to own up to 15% of the Telegraph, three times the level envisaged when Parliament passed the legislation last year.
When the state confined whole populations to their homes and bossed us around for years during Covid, where were the philosophers who say they love liberty? Cheering on the authoritarians, says Prof James Alexander.
There is a political movement that is dying before our very eyes. It lives under a variety of names. For Dr David McGrogan it is Nice Right Liberalism: the belief that deep down everyone is really a decent English chap.
The assisted suicide Bill is epochal because it takes liberalism to its zenith: the state stepping in to kill citizens to make them free and equal, says Dr David McGrogan. But how far down does the slippery slope go?
Hugh Grant and 70 other "leading cultural figures" have written an open letter protesting the Guardian's plan to sell the Observer to loss-making start-up Tortoise Media. Charlotte Gill looks at what the fuss is about.
When virtue-signalling liberals proclaim “we are all immigrants” they must know it isn't true. Most white Britons have roots going back 6,000 years. So why do they say it? asks politics professor James Alexander.
In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.
Human rights law is not about protecting us from Big Brother, says Dr David McGrogan. It's more like Big Brother's 'Little Brother', helping him expand the state’s reach into every nook and cranny of our lives.
David Bell says his tribe on the 'progressive Left' abandoned him during Covid as it lurched into authoritarianism. But he moved to Texas and found a new community with those who love freedom.
With the rise of woke authoritarianism it's not that we are not becoming more like China, argues Dr David McGrogan, but that we are becoming more like ourselves as the dark inner logic of secular modernity pushes through.
