Woke
Learning to love Big Brother
A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
Fisherpeople
Tears over Jordan Peterson’s book, The Sun goes woke and the BBC’s “fisherpeople”
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
Has publishing gone woke?
It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world
The key to the collapse of our cultural self-confidence
Why have our great cultural institutions been among the first to fall?
Do not go gently
Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth
The evolution of Nick Cave
The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
What are we supposed to do when “Brenda the sheep” gets hungry?
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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
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers