Cancel Culture
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Cancellation of a Brazilian artist
Dissenting opinions on transgenderism can inspire attempts to erase careers
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
