Are students really too fragile for Shakespeare?
What’s the point of a university? Regrettably, that’s a genuine question. The censorship and trigger warnings that are rife on British campuses…
In defence of Beyonce
People complaining about supposedly offensive pop lyrics is hardly anything new. It’s as old as the form itself; never-ending proof…
Joe Lycett's donkey joke isn't a matter for the police
There’s a word for countries in which you might get collared by the police because someone took offence to your…
The fight is on to censor Elon Musk’s Twitter
If Elon Musk truly intends to make Twitter a free-speech platform, he’s clearly got a fight on his hands. That…
The case that sums up the police's warped priorities
If you want a snapshot of how warped the police’s priorities are these days, look to the case of Kevin…
Banning Russian players from Wimbledon will backfire
We need to talk about Russophobia. There really is no other word for the swiftness with which Russian sportspeople and…
Nottingham university’s shameful treatment of Tony Sewell
If you want a glimpse of how toxic the UK’s race debate has become, take a look at the treatment…
Why is Durham trying to ‘decolonise’ maths?
Is maths racist? That’s the question apparently troubling the department of mathematical sciences at Durham University at the moment. As…
Disney's Russia boycott plays into Putin's hands
What might make Vladimir Putin think twice? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues for…
The attacks on J.K. Rowling only prove her point
It is often said that J.K. Rowling is uncancellable. So rich and bankable is the Harry Potter author — now…
The sinister attempt to silence a Yazidi survivor
Are we cancelling former Isis sex slaves now? It would seem so, at least going by this barmy story out…
Harry and Meghan, the term 'Megxit' isn't sexist
Just when you thought Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s collective victim complex couldn’t get any more vast and cavernous, up…
Un-cancel Terry Gilliam!
I am starting to wonder if the world of arts and culture is staffed, in large part if not exclusively,…
Meet Extinction Rebellion's latest offshoot
What have environmentalists got against commuters? Not for the first time a group of bedraggled climate nuts have taken their…
The policing of 'non-crimes' shows the dark side of rainbow cars
The great awokening of the British constabulary has got to be the most curious and infuriating part of our culture…
Kate Clanchy and the new censorship in publishing
‘There’s more than one way to burn a book’, wrote Ray Bradbury, in a coda to the 1979 edition of…
Britain's creeping authoritarianism
When a top Edinburgh school announced earlier this month that it would stop teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, citing the…
Who cares what Ben & Jerry’s think about Israel-Palestine?
When you think of the Israel-Palestine conflict, ice cream doesn’t usually come up. But that may be about to change.…
Mumford and Sons versus the mob
So it’s finally happened. Cancel culture has come for Mumford and Sons. Winston Marshall, former banjo player in the hugely…
Shame on the GB News boycotters
GB News, the UK’s first new news channel in decades, launched on Sunday night with a monologue from the estimable…
Why can't King's College academics cope with a photo of Prince Philip?
Librarians aren’t known for causing trouble. But at our elite universities, in the grip of an increasingly unhinged culture of…
Pimlico Academy and the politicisation of the playground
The strange tale of Pimlico Academy, the central London school roiled by ‘anti-racist’ protests, shows us that the culture war…
The infuriating truth about Harry and Meghan's activism
‘Why do you lot hate Harry and Meghan so much?’ It’s a question the formerly royal couple’s supporters often ask…
Racism has become a kind of theory of everything
‘If you hate wokeness, you should vote for Joe Biden.’ So said writer and academic Yascha Mounk in the Atlantic in…
Covid has emboldened our modern censors
The past year has accelerated all kinds of trends that were already moving through our societies. Social atomisation, the decline…
