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…
Why do Ben & Jerry’s want to defund the police?
The radicalisation of the Ben & Jerry’s PR department has been one of the stranger spectacles of recent years. After…
What's the problem with Apu?
Remember Apu, the kindly Indian shopkeeper from The Simpsons? Well, in the time since most people have stopped watching that…
Prince Harry's new job is hardly 'public service'
At the tender age of 36, Prince Harry has got his first job since leaving the royal family. Congratulations to…
In defence of Charlie Hebdo's 'racist royals' cover
Amid the ongoing fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive Oprah interview, Charlie Hebdo seems to have done the…
Mr Potato Head and the cult of gender neutrality
Another pillar of the patriarchy has fallen. His name is Mr Potato Head – or rather, it was Mr Potato…
Of course there's a free speech crisis on campus
A free speech crisis on campus? Apparently, it’s a myth, concocted by right-wing commentators and latched on to by a…
Gina Carano and the hypocrisy of Hollywood
Godwin’s Law has become a way of life in our polarised political times. Go on social media any given day…
Why we should worry about the censorship of the far left
There are many important, principled arguments for free speech. But one of the most convincing is purely tactical. Why empower…
The pathetic attempt to cancel Jordan Peterson
There was a time when publishers had to battle with external forces for their right to publish controversial authors. It…
When will Harry and Meghan stop hectoring us?
Another day, another Zoom missive from the Duke and Duchess of Woke. Hot on the heels of their thinly-veiled intervention…
