Rhetoric
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
A moral panic about moral panics?
We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers
Who exactly is “far right”?
If it is a threat then it has to be defined
Marginalising the majority
Progressive rhetoric has a projection problem
It’s not happening, and that’s why it’s good
The case for not Having A Normal One
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
