Woke
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box
Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
Using the Force against wokeness: A galactic scandal for Disney
The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat
Six ways to end Britain’s culture wars
Nigel Jones proposes a list of six steps that the government could easily enact to conserve our liberty
Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?
From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?
The problem with democracy
Progressive authoritarianism is doing its best to ruin democracy for the rest of us
Are all political beliefs ultimately selfish?
Thomas Prosser’s new book argues that there are elements of self-interest and altruism in all political ‘isms’
Colonialism goes woke!
Australia abolishes parental rights, double-masking is double-plus-good, and the woke praise British Imperialism
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
