Woke
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
Spellcheckers go woke
Countryside is racist, McDonalds transvestites, taking the knee rebels and Nazis can’t be attractive
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Yelp if you’re woke
Yelp label businesses accused of racism, the MOD goes woke and restaurant apologises for mocking Xi
It’s that nurse again
Both Mary Seacole and the Girl Guides deserve better
What did YOU do in the Great Culture War, Daddy?
The British public will not stay forever silent as their values and beliefs are attacked
Channel 4 turn off IT Crowd
Laurence Fox’s woke intervention, Glasgow football honour US liberal and Essex spray a Muslim with champagne
Can we ever be on the right side of history?
History is the composite of our collective actions, looming over us ready to make a verdict
Is wokery to be added to our school curriculums?
The issues of 2020 should not be allowed to dominate the curriculum
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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
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create