Woke
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
Women Can Be Cancelled, Too
Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture
I’m a political orphan
Being an old-style radical is not winning me many friends – but I’m staying put
People Need Borders
Louise Perry reviews Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries, by Frank Furedi
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Scullionbait
Chronicling the inroads of cultural Marxists, the woke, the right-on, and all the virtue signalling rest
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Priti Woke
The Home Secretary thinks there are too many white people in her department
What to do when you’ve been cancelled
How to wean cancel culture addicts off their favourite drug
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
