Cancel Culture
Why hasn’t Philip Larkin been cancelled?
When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight
Happy non-binary day!
How internet communities are validating the fragile egos of adolescents
The silence of the self-censoring writers
Our writers must be bold enough to write the words they want to write, independent, and stronger for that
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
H.G. Wells must fall
When it comes to cancel culture, socialism is the ultimate prophylactic, writes Michael Coren
Charity boss fired after criticising Black Lives Matter
Nick Buckley was sacked from the organisation he founded nine years ago
How King’s College London has become Cancel College
The buccaneering spirit of King’s has gone, and with it its international standing
Error has no honorary positions
What the Booker binning Emma Nicholson means for the public square
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Cancelling Trevor Phillips
Suspending Phillips didn’t advance Labour’s claim they are the party of anti-racism
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
