Black Lives Matter
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
Who cares about reality?
Activists wish to change the name of a school in north London because it is named after a road which…
Trump’s Burkean moment
President Trump surprised some on Saturday when he shared a video from Business Insider explaining that billionaires have amassed half-a-trillion…
Tear gas Ted
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Diary
Four years ago, I bought a ranch in Wyoming. Not that I was tired of New York, but I’m fascinated…
The mock revolution of the elites
‘Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified,’…
Open letters have become ransom notes
In the States, the ‘open letter’ is enjoying quite the formal renaissance. Curiously, recent examples of this newly popular epistolary…
Unleash chaos
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
We’re making a spectacle of shame
When I was about ten, on return home from church I ate a peach, the juice of which dribbled down…
Does the curriculum really need ‘decolonising’?
Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ education spokesman, has written to Gavin Williamson urging him to do something about ‘systemic racism’…
Do all black lives matter to BLM?
‘I understand black lives matter. But that’s not my movement, right now. My movement is to let them know that…
Uncle Tom shows another side of the African-American story
Although it finished production months before George Floyd was killed, the documentary Uncle Tom, produced by Larry Elder, has been released…
The gentrification of revolt
Does anyone actually remember George Floyd? What started out as a noble cause to curb police brutality in urban and…
‘Defund the police’ just means ‘I’m rich’
Walk along the leafy streets of any neighborhood in so-called ‘brownstone Brooklyn’, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and you’ll…
Keir Starmer’s bizarre Black Lives Matter re-education
So now we know what happens if you criticise Black Lives Matter. You’ll be packed off for re-education. You will…
The censorship spiral
It’s open season on mavericks and dissenters at the moment. If you publicly challenge any of the sacred nostrums of…
Power putsch
This is no leftist revolution
False colours
Do we really want to re-racialise society?
Don’t play a game you can’t win
Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin…
Why is Black Lives Matter praising a terrorist?
In the early hours of May 2, 1973, State Trooper James Harper pulled over a white 1965 Pontiac Lemans on…
Trump’s African American ‘silent minority’ could swing the election
Donald Trump’s efforts to broaden his appeal to the African American community are bearing fruit. Rasmussen polling noted in early…
The Kushner conundrum
After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…
The controversy paradox
The less something is a problem, the more people talk about it
The Spectator’s Notes
‘White Lives Matter Burnley’ said the plane’s banner as it circled the club’s stadium just after the teams had ‘taken…
Defund the police
Forces have become too politicised to function
