Culture Wars
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
Renewing culture for the Right
Why should the culture sector should still be in thrall to the left?
Yes, beauty matters. Now what?
How do we address our current artistic crisis and the wearying stalemate of the “culture wars”?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
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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
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy