Ben Cobley
Ben Cobley is a Research Fellow at Civitas and author of The Tribe: the Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity (Societas, 2018) He tweets at @bencobley
The paradox of free speech
If the Civil Service wants to retain its reputation for political impartiality, then it needs to exclude those who promote only certain kinds of politics
Beware of trans affirmation therapy
The feminist fix: Empower teenage girls, rather than telling them who they are
Has the Tory left deserted Northern Ireland?
Conservatives must stop backing the disastrous NI protocol
It’s time to burst the red balloons
How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s living in America?
The mayor of London should focus on representing the city that elected him
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict