Patrick West
Patrick West is a columnist for Spiked and author of Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times (Societas, 2017)
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive
There’s no need to shout
Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism