Toby Young
- ️Tue Jan 28 2025
Toby Young is the author of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2001), The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006) and What Every Parent Needs to Know (2014). He is also a co-founder of several free schools. www.nosacredcows.co.uk
-
Free speech matters to Kemi Badenoch and it should matter to you
As the authors take their place in the House of Lords today, they write of the importance of upholding free expression in Britain
-
Policing ‘hate speech’ is just the latest method of enforcing Left-wing orthodoxy
Recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ does nothing to prevent real hate, the evidence suggests
-
If corporations are allowed to decide which opinions are permissible, then free speech is dead
It is time to ban financial service companies from discriminating against customers on the basis of their political beliefs
-
How I learned to resist the rise of the ‘cyclo-terrorists’
One of the things that makes this moral hierarchy (bicycles good, cars bad) so objectionable is that it maps so easily onto the class system
-
Darren Grimes is being investigated for stirring up racial hatred – and that's patently absurd
Are journalists now going to be arrested if the people they're interviewing say things that could conceivably stir up hatred?
-
Should we be worried about the uptick in Covid cases? Almost certainly not
Until hospital admissions and deaths start to increase in the UK, we don't really need to worry
-
French quarantine is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
The decision is just the latest example of British ministers overreacting
-
I swapped the 'psychotic delirium' of Britain for somewhere far better
Toby Young left behind a fearful UK for his first post-lockdown holiday
-
Never mind squeezing the brakes – the PM's lockdown strategy is a car crash
He has simultaneously executed a U-turn, pressed the accelerator and performed an emergency stop
-
At long last, short men like me have a reason to walk tall
News that six-footers are at greater risk of Covid provides much-needed succour for those of us used to be looked down upon
-
Mandatory masks are a matter of politics, not public health
Today's announcement neatly coincides with a new report issuing dire warnings about a 'second wave'
-
Day by day, the coronavirus edges ever closer to extinction. Time to get back to normal
It’s becoming clear that the social distancing rules – even if the new one-metre rule – are unnecessary.
-
'The science' was right – it was the Government that was wrong
Sage advisors never suggested a full lockdown - so why are they now trying to rewrite history?
-
The Government's cowardly U-turn on schools is a fiasco
The sooner it can start rectifying that harm, the better
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
