sensitivity readers
The hounding of a poet and teacher
Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany