Public discussion is no longer organic. There is now a system that decides which stories can be reported by news outlets, which topics politicians are willing to comment on, and which topics should be deemed untouchable. We now have no-go topics. The environment of “acceptable speech,” contrasted with the topics nobody dares to touch, frames…

Public discussion is no longer organic. There is now a system that decides which stories can be reported by news outlets, which topics politicians are willing to comment on, and which topics should be deemed untouchable. We now have no-go topics. The environment of “acceptable speech,” contrasted with the topics nobody dares to touch, frames…

Public discussion is no longer organic. There is now a system that decides which stories can be reported by news outlets, which topics politicians are willing to comment on, and which topics should be deemed untouchable. We now have no-go topics. The environment of “acceptable speech,” contrasted with the topics nobody dares to touch, frames…

Very often, the way we live our lives is that we go through the motions: We do our work, try our best, tackle the things we have to do, take on our obligations, or we slack off on those obligations and find comforts where we can. What we often forget is that no matter what,…

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has for the first time addressed questions about his being on holiday in Crete as the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan and took Kabul. “With the benefit of hindsight I would have been back earlier, but we were all surprised by the scale and the pace of the collapse of the situation,”…