James O’Brien
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
