Umut Özkırımlı
Umut Özkırımlı is a senior research fellow at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals) and a professor at Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University. He is the author of Cancelled: The Left Way Back From Woke (Polity, 2023). Find him online at @UOzkirimli and @umutozkirimli.bsky.social
How the anti-woke won
The left should have listened to its own dissidents
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The renegade progressives
Has the University and College Union discovered freedom of speech?
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
Luxury politics and the narcissistic left
Commodification with a woke twist
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
