Woke
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
UN-Believable
Women are cancelled, white people are racist, the UN goes woke, and limited and specific law-breaking
A pigment of her imagination
The pitfalls of (not) being black in American academia
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
Why can’t California control predictable fires?
California’s rulers again shift the blame to conservatives rather than admit their own incompetence
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
Against the useful idiots
Why ‘God Save The Queen’ matters too
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
