Manosphere
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Adolescence is an absolute clunker
It does not explore its overbearing themes realistically
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair