Jim Butcher in Spiked says the debate over free speech is riddled with hypocrisy as left and right alike take a partial, partisan view of what academics should be allowed to say. This is epitomized in the recent free speech row between the UK’s Conservative government and the University and College Union.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


