Radicalisation
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The self-defeating earnestness of anti-extremism
I played the anti-extremist Prevent game and soon became engrossed in an improbable far-right love affair
Lefty men’s failures have radicalised women
Don’t pretend that feminists are being “radical” for no reason
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
