Culture War
How the first culture war ended
The Whig vs Tory battle was resolved through pragmatism and compromise
Is woke really dead?
Those who are “woke” claim to be liberal, yet Doyle clearly illustrates they are the opposite
The Philistines versus the Pharisees
How the rise of the meritocrats tore society in two
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks