Scott Anthony
Scott Anthony is a journalist and historian. He is currently finishing a book on the history of British propaganda.
Should the COI make a return?
How government communications are in serious need of a reboot
How a twenty-year-old report started the culture wars
The Parekh report argued that ‘Britishness’ as previously understood was now defunct
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
