The real far-right threat
There was a horrendous far-right gathering in London yesterday. Racist cries cut through the air like a knife. One attendee…
When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?
Those of us who believe in freedom of expression have felt mighty lonely this week. We have watched as, one…
Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?
One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…
Hamas’s victim complex
‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.’ Who do you think said this?…
Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’
So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of…
The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children
We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
Do Jewish Lives Matter too?
For more than a year, English footballers took the knee in solidarity with a petty criminal who was murdered by…
Why aren’t ‘anti-fascists’ condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?
I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists…
The shameful gloating at Israel
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d…
The chilling calls to shut down GB News
Tyranny is a sneaky thing. It often scurries in on the back of controversy. It is often when people are…
Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak…
YouTube is wrong to rush to judgement on Russell Brand
It is often on the back of public fury that dangerous new precedents are set. Authoritarianism can sneak in when…
Róisín Murphy and the limits of the new authoritarianism
Has cancel culture finally met its match? Have the new blacklisters who hasten to erase anyone who gives voice to…
The Guardian’s shameful Roisin Murphy review
Of all the smug, bitter things the Guardian has published over the years, its review of Róisín Murphy’s new album…
The sinister online mobbing of Róisín Murphy
In the past they would put a witches’ bridle on women who yapped too much. Any woman judged to be…
Why did the Co-op debank feminists – but let Rose West keep her account?
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any madder, you find out the following: at the Co-operative bank, if you’re…
Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia
Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…
What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?
So, let me get this right: at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians who make jokes about killing and raping women are welcome, but…
The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’
‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to…
Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes
Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually…
The trouble with Keir Mather
Every time I cross paths – or swords – with a cranky student activist, I have the same thought: ‘Oh…
How did Trans Pride allow itself to become a front for misogyny?
On Saturday, in Trafalgar Square, a man called for violence against women. Specifically, it seems, intellectually curious women, those unruly…
Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ social media crackdown
Joe Biden cannot be trusted to protect the American people’s freedom of speech. He needs to be restrained, by law,…
Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?
Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…
