Jean-Paul Stonard
Real culture wars
On the perils of being on the right side of art history
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Two cheers for Keir
Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names