Equality
The rise of the pluto-meritocracy
Meritocracy, a word coined by my father, gets a bad press these days. Two recent books — The Meritocracy Trap…
Culture wars, identity politics and free speech: Rod Liddle and Peter Tatchell in conversation
A conversation between Rod Liddle and Peter Tatchell
Selling the family home to pay for care is not an injustice
There’s nothing unjust about selling the family house to pay for care
Letters: The veiled elitism of social mobility
Levelling up Sir: In making the case for social mobility, Lee Cain unwittingly endorses the classism he hopes to fight…
The problem with ‘role models’
Who needs role models anyway?
Westminster and the truth about the class ceiling
Social mobility is more urgently needed than ever
Tony Sewell’s race report critics are guilty of gaslighting
The Sewell Report on Race and Ethnic Disparities is courageous, thoughtful and measured. Its relative optimism has triggered a torrent…
An open letter to my golf club
An open letter to my golf club
Confessions of a lifelong bitch
The return of the bitch is long overdue
Beware the linguistic Trojan horse
It’s the bane of many an author these days: those newspaper-filler Q&As. One I recently filled out included the question:…
The secret code of the ruling class
I naively hoped that last year’s statement by the Equalities Minister explaining why unconscious bias training was being phased out…
No one wins in the race race
After the explosion of international self-abasement over George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, much theatrical soul-searching ensued. So your basic man…
The battle for Eton’s soul
When trying to get my head around the row that has engulfed Eton College in the past two weeks I…
The ‘anti-racism’ movement is sowing deeper divisions
Why the ‘anti-racism’ movement is dangerous
Kamala Harris vs James Madison
If Joe Biden loses the presidential election tomorrow, he will not have any shortage of people to blame. The first…
Let men have their boys’ clubs
There’s nothing wrong with men-only clubs
The lost boys: the white working class is being left behind
Britain’s forgotten demographic
What makes Thomas Piketty so sure he can save the world?
The French economist, statistician and polymath Thomas Piketty sprang to fame in 2013 with a daunting tome, Capital in the…
Never mind the numbers – the boardroom gender battle has barely begun
It’s the way the world’s going, but still it looks quite impressive that the number of women directors of FTSE100…
Universities don’t need to be lectured about racism
I’ve been contacted by a professor at a leading Russell Group university who is worried about the spread of progressive…
Is anything creepier than a ‘male feminist’?
Over a drink recently I sat next to a man who announced, barely before he’d taken his first sip, that…
Life is tough at the bottom of the equality heap
The incident I am about to recount I make no judgment about, other than that I believe it tells us…
Feminism is over, the battle is won. Time to move on
Victory has left 21st-century feminists in a morass of social-media sniping
Women’s issues are for everyone now, not just feminists
‘Women’s issues’ are for everyone. So feminism is obsolete
The best thing about Harry G. Frankfurt’s On Inequality is the paper
Ten years ago, a philosophy professor at Princeton wrote a book with a provocative, slightly indecent title. It was a…
