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
Most Read
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
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
