Oliver-James Campbell
Oliver-James Campbell is a freelance writer and book critic. His work has appeared in WIRED, VICE, New Humanist and more. A geordie based in North Yorkshire, he can be found at @olivverjames on Twitter.
Could the US be heading towards civil war?
A crash course on the causes of modern civil wars
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
It’s OK to be angry about socialism
It is perverse that this chronic failure of an ideology endures
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
What Trump gets right about NATO
There needs to be a shifting in the balance of responsibility from America to Europe
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus