Helen Pluckrose
Round up the ordinary subjects
A free society cannot remain free if it implements the social justice movement’s bizarre ideology of vilifying ordinary people
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic