Thoughtful Aesthete or Cheerful Philistine?
On art, artists, and the divided soul of comedian Russell Kane.
Robin Ashenden
· 9 min read
UK
A collection of 45 posts
A Demagogue Departs
The SNP has identified England and the English political class—especially the governing Conservative Party—as hostile forces.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read
How Do They Know This?
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 6 min read
Trouble in the Midlands
How social media influenced media discourse about civil unrest in Leicester and inflamed the violence.
Hardeep Singh
· 8 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State
The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.
Harry Lehmann
· 4 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes
The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them
Barbara Kay
· 13 min read
A Good Laugh
Farewell to the charm and sleaze of Boris Johnson.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Shuttering the Tavistock
The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.
Bernard Lane
· 10 min read
Boris Beheaded
From restoration to regicide.
Robin Ashenden
· 9 min read
How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism
One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered to debate him, as did a
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis
Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 16 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.
Quillette
· 10 min read
Breaking the Union
The SNP has been in government in Scotland since 2007, and the determination and political will with which it has pursued independence has been impressive.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report
Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”
Damian Counsell
· 24 min read