Political Correctness
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
Lola and the silence
French politicians cannot face facts
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
Slang vs Woke: the final judgment
Everyone wants what should be. But there is no “should be”. There is only what is.
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
