Black Lives Matter
Trump’s Burkean moment
President Trump surprised some on Saturday when he shared a video from Business Insider explaining that billionaires have amassed half-a-trillion…
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The brilliance of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ slogan
Four years ago, I bought a ranch in Wyoming. Not that I was tired of New York, but I’m fascinated…
The mock revolution of the elites
‘Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified,’…
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…
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
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…
Does the curriculum really need ‘decolonising’?
Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ education spokesman, has written to Gavin Williamson urging him to do something about ‘systemic racism’…
Do all black lives matter to BLM?
‘I understand black lives matter. But that’s not my movement, right now. My movement is to let them know that…
Uncle Tom shows another side of the African-American story
Although it finished production months before George Floyd was killed, the documentary Uncle Tom, produced by Larry Elder, has been released…
The gentrification of revolt
Does anyone actually remember George Floyd? What started out as a noble cause to curb police brutality in urban and…
‘Defund the police’ just means ‘I’m rich’
Walk along the leafy streets of any neighborhood in so-called ‘brownstone Brooklyn’, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and you’ll…
Keir Starmer’s bizarre Black Lives Matter re-education
So now we know what happens if you criticise Black Lives Matter. You’ll be packed off for re-education. You will…
We’re facing a tsunami of censorship
It’s open season on mavericks and dissenters at the moment. If you publicly challenge any of the sacred nostrums of…
This ‘revolution’ isn’t what it looks like
This is no leftist revolution
The Black Lives Matter movement is re-racialising society
Do we really want to re-racialise society?
Don’t play a game you can’t win
Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin…
Why is Black Lives Matter praising a terrorist?
In the early hours of May 2, 1973, State Trooper James Harper pulled over a white 1965 Pontiac Lemans on…
Trump’s African American ‘silent minority’ could swing the election
Donald Trump’s efforts to broaden his appeal to the African American community are bearing fruit. Rasmussen polling noted in early…
The Kushner conundrum
After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…
How come the less something is a problem, the more people talk about it?
The less something is a problem, the more people talk about it
Michelangelo’s David must fall
‘White Lives Matter Burnley’ said the plane’s banner as it circled the club’s stadium just after the teams had ‘taken…
The police have become too politicised to function
Forces have become too politicised to function
To save black lives, police top brass must face reality
To save black lives, top brass must face reality
Black Lives Matter is a state-backed religion
‘Protest’ often feels inadequate as a characterization for the public exhibitions that have erupted nationwide over the past several weeks.…
