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Oct 30, 20196 min read
We need to talk about anti-Semitism
I felt genuinely spooked when I heard that gravestones in a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery in Rochester in Kent had been smashed just a few...
Oct 18, 20197 min read
The war over words
The issue of language is becoming more and more acrimonious and controversial. Politicians are attacked not so much for their views and...
Oct 1, 20196 min read
The gender-neutral attack on motherhood
I was genuinely shocked by the news that Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who retained his female reproductive organs and gave birth...
Sep 19, 20194 min read
Scaring children witless
‘Eco-anxiety’ has become the latest fashionable malaise. Apparently it is afflicting many children. That kids as young as four and five...
Sep 5, 20194 min read
John Locke and the new intolerance
The 17th-century philosopher, John Locke, is often described as the father of modern liberalism. Now a recently discovered manuscript...
Sep 2, 20192 min read
The real lesson of the invasion of Poland
As politicians and pundits commemorate the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland, it is telling that there is more focus on this...
Aug 2, 20198 min read
The turn against motherhood
There is a difference between an individual deciding not to have children and someone embracing the view that there is something...
Jul 24, 20193 min read
Is disability the new normal?
Students in higher education are increasingly classified as either disabled or as suffering from mental-health issues. Disability on...
Jul 11, 20195 min read
A global culture war
As far as the mainstream Western media are concerned, Vladimir Putin’s interview during the recent G20 summit with the Financial Times...
May 16, 20193 min read
Manufacturing anxiety
How the mental-health panic is messing up the next generation. We live in a world in which children and young people are constantly told...
Apr 15, 20196 min read
The right to criticise George Soros
Anyone who dares to criticise the billionaire speculator George Soros can expect to be denounced as an anti-Semite. So last week, when...
Mar 25, 20193 min read
Thierry Baudet: not your typical populist
The latest challenge to the European Union political oligarchy comes from the Netherlands, where Thierry Baudet and his Forum voor...
Mar 21, 20193 min read
Don’t turn the Christchurch killer into Voldemort
I can totally understand why New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern stated that she will never utter the name of the Christchurch...
Mar 1, 201911 min read
A perpetual war of identities
Identity politics has been steadily growing in influence. Until recently, however, the promoters of identity politics tended to deny that...
Feb 19, 20195 min read
Why identity politics has been so bad for Jews
It is difficult to know what to make of anti-Semitism in the 21st century. Survey after survey indicates that it is on the rise,...
Feb 6, 201913 min read
Our age of anxiety
“We look upon our epoch as a time of troubles, an age of anxiety. The grounds of our civilisation, of our certitude, are breaking up...
Feb 6, 20193 min read
Competitive self-harm
It is difficult not to feel distressed and saddened by the death of Molly Russell. She is the 14-year-old British schoolgirl whose...
Jan 21, 20194 min read
The crusade against masculinity
Toxic masculinity has emerged as the target of choice of many identitarians. That said, the term itself has almost become redundant,...
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Academics need courage, not anonymity
As a university professor and fervent advocate of academic freedom and free speech, I felt uneasy when I heard that an international...
Nov 6, 20184 min read
Tragic that love of country is now off the syllabus
Sadly far too many people wish to ignore rather than remember the brave soldiers who fought to defend their country in the past. As we...
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