Black Lives Matter
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Was Priti Patel really ‘gaslighting’ MPs?
Gaslight has been a useful word meaning ‘to manipulate a person by psychological means into questioning his or her own…
I may never act again unless I express ‘correct’ opinions
The pitfalls of wrongthink
Insects of the hour
Did you go to college? If so, then it is overwhelmingly likely that you have been the recipient of a…
Black mass: the Georgetown Lecture Fund’s odd diversity campaign
The New York Times’s opinion editor resigned in disgrace earlier this month following a newsroom revolt over the publication of…
Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or…
How a serious issue with racism was reduced to a tick-boxing exercise
Who needs statue topplers when the state will do it for you? Some bright spark in authority has decided the…
In defence of liberalism: resisting a new era of intolerance
Our public figures must rediscover the true spirit of liberty
The protestors have brought down the lockdown
I wasn’t surprised to see that a woman whose father died at a care home in Bicester in April has…
I thought I’d left looting mobs behind in the Middle East
Last week shattered all my sense of stability and permanence in New York, the city I’ve called home since 2012…
Why is the Labour left so averse to Winston Churchill?
It has become a ritual almost as traditional as the Changing of the Guard. During a weekend of mostly peaceful…
Would Joe Biden defund the police?
Thanks to the nature of digital media, the last 10 days can be seen in entirely different ways. On one…
Why are street protestors exempt from the corona clause?
It is nearly four years since Black Lives Matter had their first major protest in London. Emulating their US counterparts,…
America is burning – and it could cost Trump the presidency
Will civil unrest seal Trump’s downfall?
Don’t compare America’s riots to Hong Kong
As soon as the unrest began in Minneapolis, the inevitable comparisons with Hong Kong began. We saw throngs of masked…
Virtue-signaling isn’t courage
It is completely understandable for African Americans to be outraged at yet another death of a black man by overly…
Is Black Lives Matter a religion for woke white people?
The most memorable footage of the Black Lives Matter protests, and perhaps the creepiest, doesn’t capture any acts of violence,…
The creeping nihilism of the American left
The twin temptations of American liberalism are to radical excess and conservative stasis. Because liberalism is a practical philosophy of…
Which black lives matter?
There is practically universal agreement that George Floyd was unjustly killed by police officer Derek Chauvin and that his life…
America’s riots could be contagious
It’s kind of amazing. For weeks we have been arguing about the minute details of viral transmission. Can you be…
The Washington war zone
Washington, DC Last night, I took my usual evening stroll in Friendship Heights, only to realize that it could have…
Antifa’s American insurgency
We are witnessing glimmers of the full insurrection the far-left has been working toward for decades. The killing of George…
Twitter spreads riot porn — but censors a President vowing to restore law and order
If you have been following the Minneapolis riots on Twitter or Facebook, you may have come across an edgy new…
As a musical, it’s overwhelming – politically, it’s an outrage: Hamilton reviewed
It’s all about the rhythm. Hamilton is a musical that tells the story of America’s foundation through the medium of…
Raising awareness for enraged ‘victims’ always ends in lunacy
The deaf are beginning to annoy me. They seem, paradoxically, more voluble than the blind. Perhaps this is because, understandably,…
