Sex matters
“It’s been quite the month for the Gender Critical community”
Remote working will exacerbate inequality
‘Cultural capital provides a gloss and a shield of confidence to those gifted with it. As home working becomes a permanent feature of the workplace, the opportunities for working class and ethnically
There have always been “woke” students—the problem is their elders
‘The people running these institutions—they’re the people who are actually cancelling the songs, renaming the buildings and withdrawing the paintings’
Don’t dismiss incels
The “incel” subjects of TFW No GF are not actually especially unattractive or unintelligent—what they lack above all is charm and an ability to motivate themselves”
A knife-fight in a phone booth
In August the Department of Education announced that GCSE students would be allowed to drop poetry as a subject in their 2021 exams, prompting protests by what the Daily Mail called “celebrity
A new optimism for the Middle East
The Abraham Accords signed last month between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain signal a new reality underpinned by moderate Islam
Why Immanuel Kant matters
Immanuel Kant is often misunderstood — and he is partly to blame. But what he has to say is well worth thinking about
Martians, mushy peas, leprechauns (and gin)
An awful lot of advertising is graceless and uninviting. But very occasionally an advert has the cheek to be enjoyable and funny
The complex cruelty of comedy
With comedians coming under pressure to only perform ideologically pure material, can comedy and satire survive?
Biden, Trump and the soul of a nation
Politics is much like marketing: the clearer the message, the more likely the sale. Based on the opening of the (virtually held) Democratic National Convention, the presidential campaign of the former vice