Cancel Culture
Cancel culture is a culture
Overcoming authoritarianism will take courage, not just policy fixes
The art world is eating itself
A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation
Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?
Yesterday’s censors are today’s free speech champions
Playing nice hasn’t worked
Even when I keep quiet about being cancelled, the censors don’t invite me back
Burn the book!
In which activists protest against the publication of a book they know little about
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
Farewell to the counterculture
Róisín Murphy’s cancellation is a tale of poachers turned ideological gamekeepers
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
