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Liverpool is trashing its maritime history
Three subjects are branded onto the Liverpool psyche: football, music and seafaring. While the first two remain in rude health,…
Trinity College Cambridge has rushed to judgement on Captain Cook
Cambridge has made a mistake in returning to the tribe that made them some spears collected by Captain Cook’s men…
There’s no Roald Dahl without his cruelty
Roald Dahl Goes Woke: Part Two in what promises to be a very long and funny and ignominious series. Not…
We’d be wise to ignore the Council of Europe’s transgender nonsense
The Council of Europe might claim to be focussed on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, but lately…
Scotland’s pound shop Stasi
The Scottish government’s illiberal Hate Crime and Public Order Act isn’t even being enforced yet and already Police Scotland are…
Watch: Justin Welby takes a pop at CofE ‘whiteness officer’ job
Just when you think the woke wars can’t get more ridiculous, they do. It transpires that the Diocese of Birmingham…
Why everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming
Has it ever bothered you that all the Founding Fathers were white? Fear not: Google Gemini AI is here to…
The scandal of Scotland’s illiberal hate crime law
From next month in Scotland you’ll be able to drop into a sex shop, make an anonymous accusation of hate crime…
Spanish soldiers have exposed the flaw in gender self-ID
Dozens of male Spanish soldiers have legally changed their gender, allegedly to claim benefits intended for women. In doing so, the soldiers have exposed the vacuity of Spain’s…
Does Nike hate the military?
Nike — named after the Greek goddess of victory — is seemingly too scared to be associated with US armed…
Drake, Raleigh and the irony of ‘inclusivity’ drives
The past has been cancelled at Exeter School in Devon. The names of Elizabethan naval heroes Sir Walter Raleigh and…
Justin Webb has been wronged by the BBC
The BBC has upheld a ludicrous complaint against the Today programme’s Justin Webb. Back in August, Webb told listeners that…
Why is a West End theatre putting on ‘black only’ performances?
Why would the producers of a new West End play think it a good idea to put on select performances…
Why we should worry about progressive AI
Google recently launched its AI image generator, Gemini. Users could type in a description and then, in seconds, the algorithm…
The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover
John Lewis is, to most people, a department store that exists to sell toasters, cushions and lamps. But it turns…
Why does the NHS care what Stonewall thinks of it?
One might reasonably assume that NHS employees would consider biological sex to be extremely important. After all, there are huge…
Why is the civil service being given lessons on ‘microaggressions’?
Civil servants are being given lessons instructing them not to roll their eyes or look at their mobile phones while…
Why is the British Transport Police launching a bursary for British Africans?
Some of Britain’s police chiefs are in a total pickle when it comes to race, not least as a result…
Inside Oberlin College’s failed auto-da-fé
The end of Kim Russell’s career coaching lacrosse at Oberlin College can be traced back to a few words posted…
Britain isn’t a free country
I’m old enough to remember when ‘it’s a free country’ was a phrase people used in conversation. It feels like…
Why can’t the BBC leave Agatha Christie alone?
I would like to report a murder. It took place in the evening of 27 December in millions of homes…
Why don’t anti-racists care about anti-Semitism?
Where have all the anti-racists gone? You couldn’t move for anti-racists in recent years. They thundered from their newspaper pulpits…
Why wokeness really is like fascism
If you had to choose a political word of the decade you could do worse than ‘woke’. Because these days…
Why was this Christian teacher hounded for her views on LGBT issues?
Who’d be a teacher these days? Until about 50 years ago, your outlook didn’t matter very much provided you were…
The left’s strangled language on Israel and Gaza
As a left-wing sympathizer to the Palestinian cause, I cringed when I heard reports that college students around the country,…
