Woke
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
Without fear or favour
The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups
Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
See, the conqu’ring hero comes – to be ridiculed by vegans
A Procrustean bed of critical theory is examining a British military hero – with predictable results
Are we killing ourselves with kindness?
Stefan Zweig’s 1939 novel ‘Beware of Pity’ now screams to have its message heeded
Round up the ordinary subjects
A free society cannot remain free if it implements the social justice movement’s bizarre ideology of vilifying ordinary people
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Biden’s brave new world
As we move into 2021, Biden’s message resounds throughout our new woke empire
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
