The Dissenter
The Dissenter blogs at thedissenter.co.uk and tweets at @thedissenter
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
