David Swift
David Swift is an author and historian whose books include The Identity Myth. He tweets at @davidswift87
The bright future of Scouse Tories
There are plenty of blues among the reds
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The mythologised history of the Left
Nearly everything you think you know about the history of the Labour Party is false
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
