Racism
The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
EDI has a dark underbelly
“Diversity experts” can seem oddly comfortable with online anti-Semitism
The integration industrial complex is collapsing
Tell MAMA’s fall reflects a failed and discredited approach
Don’t make ethnic pay gap reporting mandatory
Mandatory pay gap reporting will make discrimination more common, not less
The two-tier justice row
What did MPs think addressing racial disparities meant, if not introducing measures based on race?
Of course young people think badly about Britain
They have been given no reason to think otherwise
The problem of race positionality and research funding
The racial identity of a researcher should not affect their progress in higher education
Ignore the grooming gangs deniers
The racial element of these horrendous crimes is undeniable
Speake for England, Martin!
How one musician’s stand against critical race theory sparked a battle for free speech
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble