These days, the language of catastrophism permeates public discourse. At times it seems that just about every serious problem facing the world is swiftly reframed as a threat to human survival. Numerous commentators insist the climate emergency is already costing...
Culture Wars
The Trans Assault On Freedom
Gender ideology is not about liberation – it is about coercion and control. Transgenderism has emerged as one of the most influential ideologies of our time. It is shaping people’s behaviour and thought in pursuit of a specific political objective – the erosion of the...
100 years of the culture war
For almost two decades, I have been attempting to understand the origins and drivers of the culture war that has now engulfed the West. Many paint it as a continuation of the age-old conflict between left and right. But that is misleading. If anything, today’s...
They Are Coming For The Classics
Why am I not surprised to read the Welsh National Opera will run a series of lectures on Madame Butterfly to highlight issues of “imperialism and colonialism”? Because in recent years it has become increasingly fashionable to frame Western art and culture in a...
The classroom culture war
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time “My child has been told in a series of assemblies that she ‘has white privilege’, thatshe ‘subconsciously perpetuates it’, may even ‘consciously enjoy...
We dismiss the culture war at our peril
Unless we win the culture war, society will never meet the needs of ordinary people. Time and again, media commentators insist that the culture wars are a distraction from the big issues of our time, such as the cost-of-living crisis. They often argue that ordinary...
Who made woke capitalists gods?
When Scott Morrison raised the alarm about the rise of identity politics, was he thinking about its ascendancy in the world of business? For Australian corporations, like their competitors abroad, have decided that going woke is good for business. They are not simply...
Trans Issues. A film censor to tell parents and children what they should think.
The British Board of Film Classification has stepped into the trans debate by highlighting five films for families to watch and discuss. But it’s not the job of an official censor to promote films that advocate certain ideologies. Who would have imagined that, one...
Turning misogyny into a hate crime is a travesty of justice
By criminalising misogyny we accept the totalitarian idea of thought crime, because in a just society people are prosecuted for what they do, but not what they think. Have you noticed that we live in an age where a variety of different campaigns are constantly calling...
Cancelling national heroes makes us historically illiterate
A headteacher in England has confirmed he is erasing the names of significant historical figures from his school after a pupil complained. But this lack of respect for the past will cause major problems in future. You could not make it up! The primary school...