Denise Fahmy
Denise Fahmy has many years’ experience in arts administration. She is a visual arts specialist and worked for Arts Council England for 15 years. In 2023 an Employment Tribunal found Denise’s claim of harassment she’d experienced at ACE due to her gender critical beliefs, was well-founded. ACE subsequently apologized to her. Her legal costs were partly met by 1,284 well-wishers through a successful Crowd Justice campaign.
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Against identitarian inclusivity
The good, the bad and the incoherent in Arts Council England’s inclusivity drives
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
