Society & Civility

The Culture War Against the Past

The European Conservative 17 November 2011 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-culture-war-against-the-past/?fbclid=IwAR1...

The tyranny of woke capitalism

25 June 2021 It often appears that CEOs of some of the largest global corporations have made the cause of the woke their own. Their...

Big Brother comes to America

8 February 2021 Experts in the US are calling for the creation of a Reality Czar. They mean a Ministry of Truth. At first I couldn’t...

Identity politics is turning violent

Published on spiked 8 September 2020: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/08/identity-politics-is-turning-violent/ One of the most...

Is it now okay to kill people we find offensive?

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...

Some Islamists cannot be saved

Once again an act of terror has been committed on Britain’s streets by a convicted terrorist who had served only half of his sentence....

Why young and old people need to mix

A few years ago, when I visited a well-known music venue in Nashville, Tennessee, I was struck by a feeling that there was something...

The politicisation of identity

Public life today is dominated by the politicisation of identity. The grand narratives of the age of ideology have given way to a...

In defence of privacy

In the twenty-first century, the privacy of individuals, groups and institutions is continually being tested, by a variety of forces that...

The real clash is within civilisations

The aim of this slim volume of essays, The Clash of Civilisations? The Debate: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, is to commemorate the...