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 the recently published Cancelled: The Left Way Back From Woke (Polity, 2023). Find him online at @UOzkirimli and umutozkirimli.com
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
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
Why Roz Adams won
An employment tribunal has defended tolerance and the place of sex realism in society
Save yourselves
We should not underestimate the deep seriousness of sex