A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

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The mainstream, pro-EU parties – especially Greens, Socialists and Liberals – fear that their opponents could make serious headway. Transgender interviewees complain about their identity becoming a ‘debate’, while refusing even to acknowledge that gender self-identification means the end of single-sex spaces. They discuss the philosophical clash between liberalism and transgenderism, the killjoys who want to limit you to two beers a week, and the tragic death of Ursula von der Leyen’s pony.

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The idea of representative democracy spread through England like a fire in the 1640s, largely thanks to the ‘blizzard of gloriously intemperate pamphlets from the pen of John Lilburne’. The delusions of the elites carry more weight than truth itself – that is how arrogant the new authoritarianism has become; how determined our rulers are to remake reality in the image of their own fevered opinion.Yes, it’s good that the newspapers will not be forced to retract their reporting, which was expressly in the public interest.

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They discuss the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia, the latest on Rishi Sunak’s crusade against smoking, and Labour’s plan to criminalise misgendering.Thrones, dominions, principalities and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgement to come in their presence. We need to stop responding to their painting of speech as a dangerous, disorientating force by defensively pleading that words don’t wound because they’re just words. Witness the rise and rise of Safe Spaces on university campuses, designed to ensure students’ psychic security against the terrible threat of their hearing an idea they disagree with.