Climate of fear erodes power to tackle real pandemic problems
The Weekend Australian 7 January 2022 These days, the language of catastrophism permeates public discourse. At times it seems that just...
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Culture Wars
Jul 25, 20216 min read
The culture war is real and it’s getting worse
15 June 2021 in Spiked Ignore the culture war denialists – we really are in the midst of an existential struggle over the future of...
May 3, 20216 min read
Who made woke capitalists gods?
1 May 2021 The Australian When Scott Morrison raised the alarm about the rise of identity politics, was he thinking about its ascendancy...
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Trans Issues. A film censor to tell parents and children what they should think.
24 Mar, 2021 RT The British Board of Film Classification has stepped into the trans debate by highlighting five films for families to...
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Turning misogyny into a hate crime is a travesty of justice
20 March 2021 RT By criminalising misogyny we accept the totalitarian idea of thought crime, because in a just society people are...
Apr 17, 20213 min read
Incels - Be Careful Before You Call Them Terrorist!
4 March 2021 RT I wince when I read when someone wants to promiscuously brand any group they don’t like ‘terrorists’. The recent calls to...
Apr 17, 20213 min read
Cancelling national heroes makes us historically illiterate
23 Feb, 2021 RT A headteacher in England has confirmed he is erasing the names of significant historical figures from his school after a...
Apr 17, 20213 min read
Even conspiracy theorists like David Miller must have freedom of speech
23 February 2001, Spiked I don’t know what’s going on inside the head of Professor David Miller of Bristol University. I do know that he...
Sep 24, 20204 min read
We’ll soon have thought police exploring our private lives
Published on RT 25 September 2020: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/501604-misogyny-hate-crime-uk/ Silence the wolf whistles, don’t say ‘you look...
Aug 31, 20204 min read
Is it now okay to kill people we find offensive?
Published on spiked 31 August 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/31/is-it-now-okay-to-kill-people-we-find-offensive/ The use of...
Jul 30, 202010 min read
The culture war against the past
spiked, 30 July 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/30/the-culture-war-against-the-past/ The cultural conflicts that have...
Jul 19, 20205 min read
The bonds that hold society together are breaking
Published in the Daily Mail 19 July 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537643/Boundaries-separating-adults-children-men-w...
Jun 21, 20206 min read
Why did the protests over George Floyd turn into mass hysteria?
A new culture of groupthink is emerging, and it is causing mass psychosis. One of the most distinctive things about the eruption of Black...
Jun 21, 20204 min read
The ceaseless culture war against Hungary
Western cultural elites despise Hungary because it refuses to play by their political rules. If you listen to the Western media, you...
Jun 21, 20203 min read
It's a mask, not a flag! CULTURE WARS around Covid-19 protection are shameful
16 May 2020 RT Apparently, whether you wear a mask is not simply a reaction to the coronavirus, but a visible statement about your...
Jun 19, 202010 min read
The birth of the culture wars
Published Spiked on line, 19 June 2020 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/19/the-birth-of-the-culture-wars/ Many pundits and...
Jun 12, 202011 min read
The identitarians are winning the culture wars
spiked 12 June 2020 This is the second part of a two-part essay exploring the development of the culture wars. Read the first part here....
Jun 2, 20206 min read
Are we allowed to call them riots?
Published on spiked 2 June 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/02/are-we-allowed-to-call-them-riots/ I understand why so many...
Mar 2, 20205 min read
Why identitarians can’t handle the Hindus
‘How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative Party?’, asked Neha Shah in the Guardian. It is a question many on the...
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...
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...
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...
Aug 11, 201810 min read
The first culture war
As we mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, it is clear that the moral wounds it inflicted on Western culture...
Jun 22, 20186 min read
A war that begins in the nursery
Unlike the 19th century Kulturkampf associated with the name of Bismarck, those of today appear over apparently very small- outwardly...
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