Ben Obese-Jecty
Ben Obese-Jecty is a former army officer, late of the Yorkshire Regiment, with operational tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now works in finance. @BenObeseJecty
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
