Black Lives Matter
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
Stars, stripes and dollars
Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
The National Trussed
The National Trust fails to re-educate its members, and a children’s home lectures us on white privilege
The sound of silence
View from Oxford: a letter to the Vice-Chancellor
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Shop these shoppers!
Saintly Sainsburys vs Waitrose’s white supremacists
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
Putting our arms around the National Elf Service
First have Christmas, then pay for it
Alfred Sherman: the original Downing Street maverick
The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings recalls the role of another eccentric who changed British politics
John Luther Adams: The ‘Become’ trilogy (cantaloupe)
You will either feel very relaxed by the middle of the piece or you will throw things at the wall and say some very bad words
On nodding terms
Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy
TikTok goes the clock
It took me a while but now I really appreciate Amy Winehouse
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
The offshoring of British social policy
Perhaps it is time we introduced bodies bankrolled by the UK taxpayer which support a commitment to democracy
We need to protect the free speech of dissident doctors
The Covid Physician on how we can protect our civil liberties in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
10 reasons why a second lockdown is a terrible idea
The Government did not have a good reason when the first lockdown was imposed and it doesn’t have a good reason today
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble