M. Woods
M. Woods is an academic researching the history of political thought in eighteenth-century Britain and France
Lockdown has fostered a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women
In the wake of Sarah Everard’s death, why has no one acknowledged that Lockdown has provided the ideal conditions for which violence against women can thrive?
What kind of government rules by fear?
The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself
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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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
