Manick Govinda
Manick Govinda is a freelance writer, artists mentor and arts consultant.
What’s the point of political art?
Art that shocks, offends, and amuses has a purpose beyond aesthetic: its existence is a testament to freedom of expression
The dissident rebels of the art world
We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression
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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
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
