Cancel Culture
The worrying rise of compelled speech in professional sport
The sports stars pushing back against the BLM movement
Free speech, councillors and new disqualification rules
Proposed local government requirements would greatly impinge on freedom of speech
Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
Libertarians and progressives are too irresponsible for freedom
Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
Women Can Be Cancelled, Too
Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture
I’m a political orphan
Being an old-style radical is not winning me many friends – but I’m staying put
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Scullionbait
Chronicling the inroads of cultural Marxists, the woke, the right-on, and all the virtue signalling rest
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
