If you defend free speech, you must defend it all and not silence those you disagree with
Kenan Malik
Ministers trumpet their law against ‘no-platforming’ in universities, but that doesn’t stop them disinviting critics from their own conferences
April 2022
The long read
‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
At the Oxford university debating society in the 80s, a generation of aspiring politicians honed the art of winning using jokes, rather than facts
February 2021
Hidden dangers in the proposed free speech law
Letters: Readers respond to planned legislation that will allow students, academics or visiting speakers to sue English universities
January 2021
The information warriors fighting 'robot zombie army' of coronavirus sceptics
The Anti-Virus website takes on figures like Toby Young and Allison Pearson - and its creators think it has them on the run
Media’s libertarian Covid sceptics under fire from senior Tory
Journalists who downplay virus ‘have a hell of a lot to answer for’, says party vice-chair Neil O’Brien
Daily Telegraph rebuked over Toby Young's Covid column
How many waves will it take for Britain's lockdown sceptics to finally call it a day?
Marina Hyde
Students quit free speech campaign over role of Toby Young-founded group
August 2020
Toby Young's dating site wins hearts of social-distancing sceptics
Others have termed the anti-lockdown journalist’s romantic venture ‘OKStupid’
May 2020
The 'lockdown sceptics' want a culture war, with experts as the enemy
Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald
Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism
Alana Lentin
April 2020
A growing clamour of voices treats the pandemic as if it's just health and safety gone mad
Catherine Bennett
Far too many are making a ‘commonsense’ case for relaxing restrictions
March 2020
We're making a right mess of our right to free expression
Kenan Malik
Islamophobia, Trevor Phillips, and free speech
Why Toby Young and other robust white men are using free speech to whip universities
Jonathan Wolff
Can it be right to silence Toby Youngs?
Stewart Lee
February 2020
Say what you want about Toby Young – no, really, he’ll defend your right to say it
Joel Golby
Cummings, Epstein, Sabisky – what fertile ground for ‘offence archaeologists’
Catherine Bennett
January 2020
Shortcuts
How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right
The term is meant to denote an attentiveness to important issues. But the likes of Laurence Fox and Toby Young have begun using it in a very different way
October 2019
Can we take Boris Johnson at his word?
Letters: The prime minister has denied on camera saying things even when there is incontrovertible filmed evidence of him saying them, writes Dr Chris Morris. Plus letters from Ann Lynch, Henrietta Cubitt and Diana Birkett
