Woke
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
Spare us the virtue-signalling hypocrisy
Footballers who take the knee are participating not in the fight against racism, but in BLM’s double standards
He won’t take the knee
Has Robert Peel been reincarnated as the Chief Constable for Manchester?
Enid Blyton and the mystery of the blue plaques
The Famous Five react to Auntie Enid’s cancellation
Can GB News go the distance?
TV channels can recover from a shaky and uncertain start
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
Critical Race Schools
A student spectator on the wokification of the curriculum
No babies, no more Nazis
If we introduce selective breeding to weed out the problematic, there would be no more Nazis
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game