Political Correctness
Against literary safetyism
Writing, and reading, is about taking risks
What can right-wing authors do?
Not just another anti-woke rant
What have galleries got against British art?
Our curators are embarrassed by our own cultural treasures
Goodwill hunting
Could the vibe shift be spreading through British culture?
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form