Marxism
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
Fanfares for the common man
Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success
The weaponisation of hate
Reducing thought to emotion is overtly propagandistic
Blood money
If abolition was capitalist propaganda, what of corporate involvement in social justice?
To critique the critic
Harold Rosenberg’s mixed legacy counterbalanced both Communism and formalism
Boris is getting off the BLM train
One country seems to have embraced the group’s ideology and world view; The other rejected it fully
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
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