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Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
The facts and the fury
Feeling strongly about an issue is a dangerous justification for mob action
Righteous rioting is an imported concept
Are our rioters all Europeans now?
The illegitimacy of expertise
Why did the West stop following its own Lockdown rules?
Labour’s recovery will begin by returning to its roots
It’s organisation and closeness to community, not a magic policy solution, that will rejuvenate Labour
Boris’s failures over COVID and Black Lives Matter
What is needed but is sorely lacking is the smack of firm government, says Nigel Jones
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
J K Rowling is not transphobic
Is it transphobic to say women get periods? Don’t be daft, says Ella Whelan
Can the West live without China?
Graham Stewart asks Stewart Paterson whether disengagement from China is an act of self-harm or a sensible stitch in time
Leaving Hong Kong – will China’s loss be Britain’s gain?
It’s Hong Kong’s middle class – not the hyper-wealthy – who may leave. But Britain may not be their preferred option.
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
The town besieged
During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
