Woke
Cancelled by my barristers’ chambers over a Tweet
Cancel culture is a straitjacket on the free expression of ideas, and democracy cannot hope to function when antagonists are muzzled
The enduring legacy of Michel Foucault
How the French philosopher founded today’s social justice movement
‘Anti-racism’ claims another scalp at University of Oxford’s Medical School
In adopting “social justice” ideology, Oxford’s Medical School risks taking a dangerous turn away from science and reason
Cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses for questioning BLM
‘I was hounded out of an organisation that is supposed to be pro-business by advising against celebrating a movement that wants to dismantle capitalism’
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Acting is cancelled
Actors are cancelled, █████ is erased from history and the BBC gives meat-eaters a grilling
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
The black hole of online censorship
The removal of Parler from app stores has made it clear that online opinions exist at the sufferance of those providing the soap box
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
The weather is racist
Standing to pee is transphobic, the police hire woke commissars and German activists re-name the weather
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
