Words
2022: What can we say?
Weaponised words can only decrease in value
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
Problematic
If someone identifies something you’ve said as problematic, they mean you are the problem
Dr Green’s Dictionary: Narrative
In politics, narrative is now less synonymous with events than with their exposure as a pack of lies
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
A triumph for truth and freedom
Basic liberties have been safeguarded, and gender critical feminism has won a crucial victory
This is not normal, this is not OK
Sexually violent images and messages are reaching teenagers through TikTok
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
Why are we supporting Ukraine?
A cautionary note about vicarious war
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
The Roman roots of the English church
Perhaps two new church histories have a salutary message for today’s C of E
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”