Lionel Shriver
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
You can’t make it up
Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake