Masks
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Faith Masks
The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Best intentions …
A woo-woo approach to summer fashion
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?