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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach