Cancel Culture
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
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
George Eaton was not responsible for Roger Scruton’s firing
The Conservatives were ultimately responsible
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Australian insights into Britain under Labour
Anthony Albanese’s government offers a depressing glimpse of Britain’s future
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
