climate activism
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?