Archive - The Free Mind

Date Night and One Battle After Another

When the chief conversation during Date Night is how expensive Date Night is, you know the cost of living has truly arrived at your front door.

Oct 31 •

Laura Dodsworth

What are you truly afraid of?

How accepting mortality can ease your fears.

Oct 24 •

Laura Dodsworth

There will be no Jews left

“We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets,” said Keir Starmer.

Oct 17 •

Laura Dodsworth

Croydon, Ceasefire Now, the ‘Trump cut’, Meloni's burqa ban and Afghan poetry - My dispatch from the frontlines of modern madness

Oct 10 •

Laura Dodsworth

7 October: Witnessing evil and standing for truth

This is hard to write.

Oct 6 •

Laura Dodsworth

Was Keir Starmer’s Latest Speech Written by AI?

Keir Starmer took to the stage at the Labour conference and delivered a speech that, frankly, sounded — and read — like it was drafted by AI, in a word…

Oct 1 •

Laura Dodsworth

September 2025

August 2025

The Rise of Vexillophobia: fear of the flag is this nation's greatest malady.

I recently returned from holiday.

Aug 31 •

Laura Dodsworth

Why I feel like I have been dropped into the Third World, without leaving home

From burqas to belches in the theatre, the petite discomforts of mass immigration.

Aug 21 •

Laura Dodsworth

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