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I cannot recommend this book highly enough. The contributions are full of insight -- they are all knowledgeable and carefully argued -- with a rich diversity of perspectives. The introduction by Luke Sheahan is masterful. If you are interested in free speech, read this book.

Conspiracy theories as weapons of coercive control thetimes.com/article/d1254a…

I'm looking forward to addressing issues arising from my chapter at the PPE conference at KCL on Friday!

Looking forward to talking about the Act at the PPE conference at KCL tomorrow. I'll explain why HEFSA and RA24 aren't just enforcement tools for existing duties but a decisive break from the ECHR, and a potential revolution in England's free speech landscape. Piers Benn manwithoutqualities

This is an excellent, thorough piece. I am delighted to be joining its author Abhishek Saha Andrew Irvine and manwithoutqualities Leslie Marsh tomorrow on a panel on free speech, at the PPE conference at KCL, where we shall trash it all out!

Your presentation was great and showed how complex and far-reaching the HEFOSA is. Hope to catch up soon.

Yes, excellent piece, though not always easy. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I don't dare post it on FB. Too many academics there...

"Perhaps the reign of genderism will truly be over when philosophers of sex and gender start acting like philosophers again"

“I think that a lot of contemporary theoretical discourse proceeds in an atmosphere of pretentious abstraction, in which it’s considered naive and illegitimate to make these very simple arguments of the kind that I’ve illustrated. If somebody does try to make them, they’re simply

1/ Today is a historic day. The key duties of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act come into force from today. 🧵

The War on Science, just published. Ed. Lawrence Krauss. Chapters by, among others, Alan Sokal, Niall Ferguson, Nicholas Christakis, Maarten Boudry, Jerry Coyne & Luana Maroja, Elizabeth Weiss, Frances Widdowson, Carole Hooven, Alex Byrne, Steven Pinker, Jordan Peterson, & me.

A great sadness of the past few years is that those I expected to stand up for freedom of speech/expression -actual writers - with honorable exceptions simply have not. Do these fools think their own liberty is guaranteed? Look around the world, you complete fools.

Happy Monday to free speech people everywhere. What an amazing innovation free societies were. What amazing success it has brought. So many people living happy lives. Don't let anyone tell you, left or right, that freedom-culture is part of an oppressor/oppression narrative.

Required reading. Some principals/wardens/tutors do well and try and understand what it is to be young, but tickbox “mental health” provisions are no excuse for this bloodless loneliness

I too have read Nicola Sturgeon's autobiography. Wrote about it here for UnHerd unherd.com/2025/08/how-ni…

The fish rots from the head 🐟

The problem is that while there is a case for DEI in principle, I doubt it works in the intended way...

For The Times and The Sunday Times Weekend Essay, Daniel Kodsi and I have written about the warping effects of academia's widespread indulgence of woke theorising -- taking in the efforts to sound the alarm on the part of Kathleen Stock, Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith, Jimmy Doyle. Many of academia's political

Wrote about Musk and co's insane projections onto "Sophie of Dundee" for UnHerd unherd.com/2025/08/americ…