The British countryside isn’t racist
In the fevered imagination of those obsessed with implementing ever greater ‘diversity’, there is seemingly no object or aspect of…
Woke language obviously doesn’t change the way we think
It’s been a cherished belief of progressives over the decades that you change the way we think, and in turn…
Stop shoehorning diversity into BBC dramas
At last, the BBC has been forced to admit what even the dogs on the street know to be true:…
Labour is the nasty party now
Labour has long prided itself on being the party of compassion. Indeed, ever since Thatcherism, personified in the minds of…
Will the new Mock the Week focus on being funny?
Heaven knows we could all do with a laugh right now, what with 2026 having begun in such an inauspicious…
Why are teachers so obsessed with the ‘far right’?
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of…
Cadavers will always captivate. Museums need to chill out
Is it right to put human remains on show? It’s a question that museum curators and the public have been…
Woke isn’t dead – and here’s the proof
In one respect, the scaremongers are right: Racism is alive and well in this country, being imbedded in our institutions…
Reform and the real populist threat
We’re scarcely into the new year and already luminaries on the liberal left have resumed one of their favourite pastimes:…
Iron Maiden at 50: how heavy metal became mainstream
The death of the Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne this July, and the huge reaction it provoked worldwide, represented something…
Do Eskimos really have a hundred different words for snow?
Do the Eskimos have many more words for ‘snow’ than the rest of us, and does this question matter? As…
The problem with Labour’s ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition
Some might say that trying to define ‘Islamophobia’ is a foolish enterprise, given that words these days are so wantonly…
The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength
In the wake of a tragedy it is only fitting that public figures issue words of condolence. But there’s a…
What Zack Polanski gets wrong about immigration
One of the most common arguments made by those with a liberal approach to immigration and asylum, and one you…
Gen Z can’t cope with the real world
Everyone recognises that teenagers today are unduly anxious. Many people attribute this to a rise in smartphone use. Some even…
Pantone’s ‘colour of the year’ isn’t racist
For those of you dreaming of a white Christmas, here’s some advice: keep your thoughts to yourselves. Or at least…
Should this academic have been banned from campus for using the ‘n-word’?
Is it ever acceptable to say the ‘n-word’? As you will have immediately inferred by that sentence, it’s rare to…
We don’t need white saviours to rescue us from St George’s flags
Trends in society always come and go, but one that shows no signs of abating is the propensity among many…
Stop saying ‘Our BBC’
One of the most grating and nauseating verbal constructions of our times – ‘Our NHS’ – has with grim inevitability…
Why can’t the BBC just say sorry?
A famous pop star once sang that sorry seemed to be the hardest word. Almost fifty years after Elton John…
Learning French taught me to love English
One of the greatest dangers posed by the government’s curriculum review is that it will result in children abandoning more…
We should not need a court’s permission to criticise Islam
Those who believe in free speech, and those who are particularly concerned by plans to have ‘Islamophobia’ codified, ought to…
Why football fans stopped watching Match of the Day
That hoary aphorism ‘be careful what you wish for’ may be a hackneyed one, but there’s nothing football pundits like…
I visited Canterbury Cathedral’s graffiti. Here’s the worst thing about it
The first, and the lasting, impression one gets from Canterbury Cathedral’s new graffiti-style art instillation is just how reasonable and…
The tyranny of ‘kindness’
The vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Irene Tracey, has been giving some gloriously counterintuitive advice recently on how to safeguard…
