Trigger Warning
Trigger warnings fire me up
Don’t spoil books and films for the sake of a minority
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get