Left-Wing Politics
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
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
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Dozing in the orchard
Chekhov at the RSC is a lot sleepier than it should be