James Lindsay
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was