Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts
We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes…
Worrying about migration doesn’t make you an extremist
This country still has a problem with a radical ideology. News that the government’s anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, now classifies concerns about mass…
The real reason why academics write in gobbledygook
Why can’t academics write properly? Why can’t they express themselves in language that normal people can understand? These are questions…
Katharine Birbalsingh is right about our worship of victimhood
One of the main accusations levelled at the trans movement is that the tidal wave of youngsters claiming to be…
How George Wendt embodied American television
The American sitcom Cheers depicted a Boston bar where everybody knew your name, and its most loyal customer, Norm Peterson,…
The trouble with BBC Verify
Can the BBC ever be objective and unbiased? It’s a question many of us ask ourselves, sometimes in hope, often…
What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get
Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks…
The police have lost it
When hyper-liberal identity politics went into overdrive in that year of madness, 2020, one of the greatest casualties in this…
It shouldn’t be illegal to burn a Quran
We now live in a country where, once more, it appears to be a crime to commit blasphemy. This is…
BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot
A great exhortation of our times is the need to ‘be kind’. It manifests itself among those who cry ‘refugees…
Trans activists won’t be silenced by the Supreme Court ruling
Many people have been celebrating after the Supreme Court’s declaration that the definition of a woman will indeed be based…
‘Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech
From today, ‘Stop Brexit Man’ is free. This character, whose real name is Steve Bray, the long-standing bane of broadcasters,…
Have we got worse at dealing with stress?
Barely a month seems to pass without a public exhortation to ‘raise awareness’ about the plight of some marginal section…
Why is Keir Starmer wishing us Eid Mubarak?
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Eid. But of course you noticed. You’d have to be living in a cave…
Why are police targeting parents who complained in a school WhatsApp group?
The heavy-handed conduct of the police these days often provokes accusations of ‘Orwellian’ behaviour – and with good reason. There…
London is not as bad as people say
Complaints that ‘London isn’t what it used to be’ or ‘London is a hell-hole these days’ are hardly original or…
The audacity of ‘decolonising’ Shakespeare
It seems to have become an unspoken requirement of recent that anyone in charge of promoting or putting on the…
Why Henry Kelly was popular
For centuries the Irish in this country had been subject to mockery, derision and discrimination – even though there is…
Keir Starmer is right to cut foreign aid
It was inevitable that the announced cut to Britain’s international aid budget would cause a stir. The curtailment earlier this…
Sam Fender is right about white privilege
Teaching working-class young men that they benefit from ‘white privilege’ is having a detrimental effect on a generation of boys,…
Why progressive activists feel superior
Left-wing activists are less likely to understand or listen to people with conservative beliefs, compared to the rest of the…
Why is Tom Hanks mocking Trump supporters?
We have long become accustomed to actors holding and sharing their progressive political views. So when David Tennant opened the…
The battle against DEI has never been more vital
It was only a matter of time before the rollback of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the workplace…
In defence of The Apprentice’s Jana Denzel
The front page of the Sun today pronounced that a star on the television show The Apprentice has quit for using ‘racist…
What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain
Nearly half of Generation Z believes that Britain is a racist country, and a similar proportion say that they aren’t…