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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
The problem with Badenochism
The Conservative leader fundamentally misunderstands the problems with the social order
Why Twitter matters
Twitter — or X if you must — is essential for bypassing traditional institutions
Fatherhood is to be relished
We should not let the lure of screens deny us the pleasures of the here and now
I hate engagement bait
Social media can be a tool for uncovering the truth, but also for obscuring it
Keir Starmer is confused about kids
How can they be old enough to vote but not old enough to use social media?
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
Päivi Räsänen is the face of Europe’s free speech crisis
We must stand up for freedom against a culture of left-wing censoriousness
Against the EU’s online censorship regime
Experts are speaking up for free speech in Europe
We are all extremely online now
Hand-wringing about the “extremely online right” is futile and hypocritical
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won