Political Correctness
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Clients
Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse
Where are you REALLY coming from?
Taking offence is a high status profession, especially where royals are involved
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Embrace uncool Britannia
Warhammer is a barnstorming British success, so why the lack of recognition?
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
