Woke
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
The fascism of POG-shaming
Mussolini may have had his flaws, but at least he didn’t diet
Fat people can’t be happy
The lies of ‘fat activists’ are making us unhappy and sick
Can British History be Saved?
Universities must fight attempts to “decolonise” the curriculum
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
Make Woke not Work
Social justice dons are de-skilling the Cambridge English Faculty
Amber Alert
A pandemic is no excuse to forget the Science of Equality
The real pandemic
The last thing we need is a future generation who can think for themselves
Should we mind the pension gap?
We need the freedom to choose home life over the market
The real rogue state
Wherever the outrage is about the success of Sinn Fein, there hasn’t been a word from Brussels
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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
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian