Tom Slater

5 days ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

Our backdoor blasphemy laws were decades in the making, inked in blood and cowardice. Share Topics Free Speech Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Does freedom of speech include the right to blaspheme? In 21st-century Britain, you’d have thought the answer would be ‘yes, obviously’. Our last blasphemy conviction was in 1977.

5 days ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

Share Topics Event Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. We’re delighted to announce our next live event. The great Andrew Doyle will be joining me to discuss his new book, The End of Woke. It’s on Wednesday 28 May in Westminster – 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB, to be precise. Doors will open at 6.30pm, when you’ll be able to grab a complimentary drink, and the discussion will start at 7pm, with plenty of time left for audience questions.

6 days ago | spectator.com.au | Tom Slater

Calling someone Darth Vader. If that’s as bad as your workplace banter gets, I’d suggest you find a more entertaining place to work. Yet, incredibly, an NHS worker not only took enormous offence to being compared to the bucketheaded villain of the Star Wars franchise, she also took her employers to a tribunal.

6 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Tom Slater

Calling someone Darth Vader. If that’s as bad as your workplace banter gets, I’d suggest you find a more entertaining place to work. Yet, incredibly, an NHS worker not only took enormous offence to being compared to the bucketheaded villain of the Star Wars franchise, she also took her employers to a tribunal. She’s just won £30,000 in compensation for her trouble.

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

The old politics is gone – and it’s not coming back. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘Historic local elections’ are three words you don’t often see next to each other. But last night was surely the exception.