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Daily Mail Articles

Where are today’s Voltaires?

I detest all forms of racism, sexism and bigotry but have no desire for the state to police the opinions of racists, sexists and bigots. I hold, perhaps naively, to George Orwell’s maxim that liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they do not...

The John Kerrification of Ed Miliband

For my first Progress column, I intended to write about David Cameron’s speech to Tory conference. Like a latter-day likely lad, I couldn’t watch the speech live, so avoided all the news until my work was done and it was time to fire up i-player, ready to drip venom...

Leveson won’t change the country

There’s an ongoing scandal at the heart of our media; a crime not just against those living but against those yet to be born. Throughout the passage of the health and social care act, the BBC was the dog that barely raised an eyebrow. It’s been the most obedient of...

Time for reform

It is somewhat ironic that the coverage of the Leveson report yet further affirms why the press must be reformed. The Sunday papers were awash with a visibly scared press prejudging the outcome of the report and warning of the end of free speech as we know it. From...