Woke
The politicisation of the police
British police officers are enforcing Stonewall’s wishlist
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
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
