Woke
The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
SHEAR Madness
Taking an Old Hickory switch to the dying academic historical profession
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
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
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
