Cambridge University has rejected a speech code that would have demanded “respect” for all views. Professors voted heavily for an amendment that all ideas and beliefs be “tolerated”. Nick Cohen hails this huge victory in Spectator UK and reminds us why free speech is the foundational value of universities and democracies alike.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


