Black Lives Matter
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
Making plans for Nigel
Culture wars may give Nigel Farage another chance to ambush the Conservatives
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
The sanctification of George Floyd
Being killed by a brutal policeman does not change a man’s life from bad to good
On message
DfID is internally permitting one-sided activism to the extent of appearing to adopt it
History wars
Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
Are we witnessing a new age of emancipation?
Or does ‘direct action’ undermine democratic institutions? Graham Stewart debates with Jeremy Black
Britain’s dangerous moment
Protest, pandemic and recession are a reminder of the fine line between civility and chaos
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
