Protest
The slipper revolution
Could this be the end for Europe’s last dictator?
Cancelling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s late-Eighties to early-Nineties comedies have not gone down in history as great triumphs. Films like Junior and Twins…
Age of the Econian
The public school elite who rule the wokerati
Tear gas Ted
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Stone cold facts
Scotland’s statues attest to a history buried under sentimental nationalism
The lunacy of the ‘largely peaceful protest’
The great conundrum facing the anti-American left at the moment is how to react to the violent protest ripping up…
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…
LA Times thirsts after ‘Naked Athena’
‘She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas’, writes Richard Read; ‘[a] woman wearing nothing but a black…
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…
Barometer
Price of protest Greenpeace was fined £80,000 for defying a court order and occupying an oil rig in the North…
The chilling effect
The printed press is not a natural ally of Facebook. Silicon Valley publishers have hoovered up so much advertising that…
Power putsch
This is no leftist revolution
False colours
Do we really want to re-racialise society?
The neoliberal counter-revolution
America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the…
After BHAZ
Protesters tried to establish an autonomous zone between the White House and St John’s Episcopal Church on Monday. Law enforcement…
Protestors have brought down the lockdown
I wasn’t surprised to see that a woman whose father died at a care home in Bicester in April has…
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What Brexiteers can teach Remoaners about good manners
‘If we are going to Westminster to riot,’ I told my Brexit-voting friends over dinner at the Thai restaurant at…
The full Delingpole: why I stripped naked and posted the video online
It was a bright Sunday afternoon and I was harmlessly at my desk, minding my own business, when from the…
Parliament Square at the Bush is theatre that believes it knows politics better than professional politicians
A new play at the Bush with a catchy political title. Parliament Square introduces us to Kat, a young Scots…
Punks vs. Putin
What makes for meaningful political protest? In regimes where ideology was taken seriously (such as the Soviet Union or America…
What I learnt trying to buy lunch for an anti-Tory protestor
The mood at the Conservative party conference this week was a little subdued, and no wonder. As those who watched…
The trouble with Bristol
A city with a chip on its shoulder
Hong Kong vs China
Hong Kong’s protests reflect not just tension with the mainland, but a great Chinese tradition. That’s what really scares Beijing
The shadow of the tanks
Looking at these protests, I fear another Tiananmen
The art of protest
Titles can be misleading, and in case you have visions of microwave ovens running amok or washing machines crunching up…
