Cancel Culture
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box
Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Using the Force against wokeness: A galactic scandal for Disney
The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat
Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?
From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
Cancelled by my barristers’ chambers over a Tweet
Cancel culture is a straitjacket on the free expression of ideas, and democracy cannot hope to function when antagonists are muzzled
Cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses for questioning BLM
‘I was hounded out of an organisation that is supposed to be pro-business by advising against celebrating a movement that wants to dismantle capitalism’
Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
Are we killing ourselves with kindness?
Stefan Zweig’s 1939 novel ‘Beware of Pity’ now screams to have its message heeded
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
