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Wokeminster
Tories reject unconscious bias training, BBC show critical race lecture, and Colston falls (again)
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
Giving straight white men all the best jobs isn’t always good news
Why should we expect BBC lifer Tim Davie to end BBC bias or high pay?
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
BBC Decolonises the Proms
A black-only university, Whitehall falls to the woke, and the long march reaches the Royal Albert Hall
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries