Felice Basbøll
Felice Basbøll is studying history at Trinity College Dublin and is a project assistant for the Academy of Ideas. She tweets at fbasboll
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Leftists are wrong about Denmark
Mass immigration is no less controversial than it was before
Feminism’s search for the perfect woman
On two biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft
Women deserve better histories
An excess of intersectional ideology obscures the real challenges of womanhood
Academic freedom will take individual courage
Students and academics have the responsibility to speak their minds
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
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
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
