Clifford Bates
Clifford Bates is University Professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Warsaw Poland
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
