Woke
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Being “anti-woke” as a protected philosophical belief
How can we protect free speech in professional environments
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
The wellspring of woke
The right should stop “owning the libs” and focus on state power
Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
In praise of newspeak
Inclusive new terms really stick it to the menstruators
Reflections on the counter-revolution in Finchley
Britain cries out for a leader with Thatcher’s (counter)revolutionary spirit
Speaking English is colonial terrorism
In fact, what’s so good about speech anyway?
The anti-arts establishment
Why do we accept such moralistic philistinism?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates