sensitivity readers
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
The sludge of sensitivity
Politics is degrading our cultural classics
The great relabelling
Linguistic tweaks won’t save us all
Sense and sensitivity
Some readers need thicker skins
Caution is killing compassion
If we go looking for problematic speech, we’ll probably find it
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
