Woke
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
Who champions the little guy now that Trump is gone?
Sir Andrew Cook, chairman of leading British manufacturer William Cook Group, bemoans the fact that the parties of the left no longer stand up for the little guy
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
