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Patrick WestThe Spectator |
The obsession with ‘toxic masculinity’ shows no sign of abating. As reported this weekend, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has warned...
Change. If one word can embody the political philosophy of Keir Starmer, it’s this one. The Prime Minister is ever so fond of it. Starmer deployed...
Vegans are a people both widely admired and hated. That is the conclusion of a report earlier this week, one that found that shoppers who opt for meat...
The triumph of Donald Trump and the defeat of a Democratic party beholden to identity politics has prompted many to conclude that woke ideology is...
As the Allison Pearson debacle begins to settle down, the lesson being drawn by many is that the police have no business harassing people for voicing...
It’s a crying shame that we will no longer hear the insightful and original opinions of Gary Lineker. No more comprehensive and judicious...
Christmas television adverts are meant to be comforting, homely, and traditional. While some find these offerings, especially John Lewis’s, overly...
The interest in reading books and the appreciation of English literature is at a nadir. This week it was revealed that only 35 per cent of eight to...
One of Kemi Badenoch’s much-touted strengths is that she cares about British culture, society and our country’s values. She is renowned for her...
Aside from debates as to what actually constitutes a ‘working person’, the Labour government does ostensibly seem clear as to whom it wants to...
We in Britain have become used to the hallmarks of anti-Israeli protests. There are the slogans decrying ‘genocide’. There are chants in sympathy...
One of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980s, Cheers, is set to return to our television screens. The show is set for a revamp, except now it will be...
Universities today are well-known as places where progressive, hyper-liberal politics predominate. It’s only logical, therefore, that the cry for...
The Labour government’s u-turn on freebies, its disclosure last night that it will no longer accept donations for clothes, is an admission that it...
Is it possible to change your class? Not just superficially – in moving up and down the hierarchy of social standing – but change it inwardly so...
To some people, the culture wars don’t matter. They are an irrelevance, an indulgence. A distraction from the material, bread-and-butter concerns of...
On Times Radio this morning Lucy Powell, Leader of the House of Commons, said that she wanted the government to ‘tackle the scourge of vaping’. Of...
It’s only been a month since the new Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, declared that the ‘era of culture wars is over’. Yet this morning the Daily...
It has been widely observed that we live in a society marked by cancellation, censorship and cowardice in the face of mob rule. To this we might add a...
With England playing Slovakia in the Euros later today, there’s absolutely no excuse this time for Anglophones to confuse this country with that...
The actors are out in force again, speaking politics. Only days after Brian Cox appeared on the BBC bemoaning that Brexit is reducing our GDP by 4 per...
D Day, 6 June, 1944, saw put into action one of the most unlikely alliances in the history of warfare: that between the largest military invasion of...
One of the country’s most cherished footballers, and one of its most irritating right-on social media commentators, Gary Lineker, has been at it...
Has the word ‘woke’ become a lazy, all-too-common cliché? The novelist and Spectator columnist Lionel Shriver thinks so. During an appearance...
You may laugh. You may have gasped in disbelief. But yes, it’s true, we now have a new socio-economic classification, known collectively as the...
Much has been made in recent weeks, and especially in recent days, about the degrees of ignorance often displayed by those protesting for the people...
The battle over sexism and equality at the Garrick Club continues to rumble on. It was revealed yesterday that several of its members,...
As a conservative non-smoker who in his youth was a libertarian twenty-a-day man, I can see both sides of the argument over the government’s recent...
Civil servants are being given lessons instructing them not to roll their eyes or look at their mobile phones while dealing with members of staff....
Why are the French so bad at learning foreign languages? Yes, you read that right. This isn’t a lament as to how the British are so terrible at...