Cancel Culture
Schools must fight to defend freedom of expression
The cowardice of senior staff at Batley Grammar should be a lesson to all educationalists about the importance of defending open discussion
Schools gone woke: a view from America
In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector
Why are great writers such awful people?
In the wake of renewed controversy over Philip Roth’s treatment of women, Nigel Jones asks whether there is a link between creative genius and sexual unorthodoxy
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism
Cancel culture comes for Dr Seuss
Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden becoming the party of banning books?
The Mumford memory hole
The parallels between the latest incident of cancel culture and George Orwell’s 1984 are uncanny
Star Wars goes woke
Racist cats in racist hats, Star Wars goes woke and a quick guide to cancelling a conservative
Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney
The Muppet Show’s widened appeal has become Disney’s Achilles’ heel as the puppet show becomes the latest victim of cancel culture
No place at the bar for challenging woke politics
The Bar Council’s verdict on Jon Holbrook’s cancellation last month shows that the bar has become an unwelcoming place for those who believe in free speech
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
