David Martin Jones
David Martin Jones is Visiting Professor in War Studies at King’s College London. His book History’s Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics is published by Hurst this month.
The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Why we might look back on Trump’s foreign policy with fondness
Joe Biden’s election signals a return to Washington’s default liberal and progressive values, especially in foreign affairs
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
