Decolonisation
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
Deconstructing the decolonisers
An intellectual Robin Hood reclaims British history for those most underserved by elite narratives
The grievance industry
Ostentatious victimhood can be a comfortable gig
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
Pretendians and the crisis of the self
Why are people manufacturing indigenous heritage?
A race to the bottom
“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
History wars roll on
In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment