Education & Culture

We dismiss the culture war at our peril

18 July 2022 Spiked Unless we win the culture war, society will never meet the needs of ordinary people. Time and again, media...

The Trans Assault On Freedom

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/22/the-trans-assault-on-freedom/ Spiked on line 22nd October 2001 Gender ideology is not about...

100 years of the culture war

15 September 2021, Spiked on-line For almost two decades, I have been attempting to understand the origins and drivers of the culture war...

They Are Coming For The Classics

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/the-short-story-is-they-are-coming-for-the-classics/news-story/2699baac7a08e64bee70faf7004813a0...

The classroom culture war

Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time This article is...

Classical Music Racist?

A scandal involving an obscure music journal confirms that the crusade against whiteness is out of control. 16 February 2021 In a world...

Eight new rules for parenting post lockdown

Published in The Times 21 August 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-parent-after-lockdown-eight-new-rules-m99jl7kpn Family...

The bonds that hold society together are breaking

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

Why age is the new dividing line in politics

The General Election demonstrated yet again that the most important division in UK politics is between old and young. Survey after survey...

Scaring children witless

‘Eco-anxiety’ has become the latest fashionable malaise. Apparently it is afflicting many children. That kids as young as four and five...

Is disability the new normal?

Students in higher education are increasingly classified as either disabled or as suffering from mental-health issues. Disability on...

A perpetual war of identities

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

Who’s guiding our children?

Though I am not a Tory I was deeply unsettled when I heard Sion Rickard, a teaching assistant, declare on the podium of the Labour Party...

The great jerk rice debate (what a waste of time!)

Poor old Jamie Oliver. He has unwittingly made the mistake of launching a new quick-cooking product titled Punchy Jerk Rice. If he had...