Ed West
Decline and crawl (w/ Ed West)
Tories, NIMBYs and Telegraph Blogs
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
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
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
