Culture Wars

The Weekend Australian 7 January 2022 These days, the language of catastrophism permeates public discourse. At times it seems that just...

15 June 2021 in Spiked Ignore the culture war denialists – we really are in the midst of an existential struggle over the future of...

1 May 2021 The Australian When Scott Morrison raised the alarm about the rise of identity politics, was he thinking about its ascendancy...

24 Mar, 2021 RT The British Board of Film Classification has stepped into the trans debate by highlighting five films for families to...

20 March 2021 RT By criminalising misogyny we accept the totalitarian idea of thought crime, because in a just society people are...

4 March 2021 RT I wince when I read when someone wants to promiscuously brand any group they don’t like ‘terrorists’. The recent calls to...

23 Feb, 2021 RT A headteacher in England has confirmed he is erasing the names of significant historical figures from his school after a...

23 February 2001, Spiked I don’t know what’s going on inside the head of Professor David Miller of Bristol University. I do know that he...

Published on RT 25 September 2020: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/501604-misogyny-hate-crime-uk/ Silence the wolf whistles, don’t say ‘you look...

Published on spiked 31 August 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/31/is-it-now-okay-to-kill-people-we-find-offensive/ The use of...

spiked, 30 July 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/30/the-culture-war-against-the-past/ The cultural conflicts that have...

Published in the Daily Mail 19 July 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537643/Boundaries-separating-adults-children-men-w...

A new culture of groupthink is emerging, and it is causing mass psychosis. One of the most distinctive things about the eruption of Black...

Western cultural elites despise Hungary because it refuses to play by their political rules. If you listen to the Western media, you...

16 May 2020 RT Apparently, whether you wear a mask is not simply a reaction to the coronavirus, but a visible statement about your...

Published Spiked on line, 19 June 2020 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/19/the-birth-of-the-culture-wars/ Many pundits and...

spiked 12 June 2020 This is the second part of a two-part essay exploring the development of the culture wars. Read the first part here....

Published on spiked 2 June 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/02/are-we-allowed-to-call-them-riots/ I understand why so many...

‘How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative Party?’, asked Neha Shah in the Guardian. It is a question many on the...

The issue of language is becoming more and more acrimonious and controversial. Politicians are attacked not so much for their views and...

I was genuinely shocked by the news that Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who retained his female reproductive organs and gave birth...

As far as the mainstream Western media are concerned, Vladimir Putin’s interview during the recent G20 summit with the Financial Times...

Identity politics has been steadily growing in influence. Until recently, however, the promoters of identity politics tended to deny that...

As we mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, it is clear that the moral wounds it inflicted on Western culture...

Unlike the 19th century Kulturkampf associated with the name of Bismarck, those of today appear over apparently very small- outwardly...