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Patrick WestThe Spectator |
Prime Ministers in the modern era have invariably tried to prove that they are men of the people. It’s one reason why the likes of Tony Blair, Liz...
Given that the French-speaking world gave us the science of semiotics, they would be the first to recognise that the Palestine flag, as it is being...
Given that the French-speaking world gave us the science of semiotics, they would be the first to recognise that the Palestine flag, as it is being...
Whenever a left-wing politician wants to besmirch working-class populists or middle-class types who hold conservative opinions, they inevitably choose...
For as long as humanity has existed, there have always been those who would view our species as either essentially benevolent or inherently selfish....
While last week’s majority vote by the inhabitants of Piddington in Oxfordshire to seek independence from Britain was a stunt – albeit one making...
For an ideology which proudly pronounces its ethos of respect, compassion and inclusion, hyperliberalism can be decidedly judgmental and supercilious...
Many people who work in the Civil Service are revolting. Quite literally in the verbal meaning of the word, and, as many have long argued, very...
Many people who work in the Civil Service are revolting. Quite literally in the verbal meaning of the word, and, as many have long argued, very...
Ever since the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square became the location in 1999 for a succession of temporary artworks, many of which have conveyed a...
When it emerged a fortnight ago that Transport for London (TfL) had unveiled a ‘Calm Space’ at one of its stations, a trial installation at Ealing...
Hollywood has a nasty habit of distorting history and telling falsehoods about the past in order to pander to the cultural prejudices and political...
Hollywood has a nasty habit of distorting history and telling falsehoods about the past in order to pander to the cultural prejudices and political...
With the Jason Arday episode set to become one of the most important and symbolic stories of the year, and his death one of its foremost tragedies, it...
With the Jason Arday episode set to become one of the most important and symbolic stories of the year, and his death one of its foremost tragedies, it...
The Green Party came to prominence earlier this year by forever promising ‘hope not hate’. Indeed, that dreamy yearning played a key part in...
For decades, voices on the liberal and progressive left have invariably rolled out the terror-inducing accusation of “racism” in order to get...
For decades, voices on the liberal and progressive left have invariably rolled out the terror-inducing accusation of ‘racism’ in order to get...
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology into disrepute. In the minds...
For decades now Trevor Phillips has been one of the most astute and unusually self-aware members of the liberal establishment, becoming in recent...
One of the lamentable side effects of the ultra-progressive wave that swept the western world in the mid-2010s was that it caused so many people to...
Do you think that Britain is heading towards civil war? If you spend too much time in certain nooks on social media, you are most likely to answer...
The strange thing about our new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s professed wish to return to the 1970s, to a prelapsarian age before Margaret Thatcher,...
One of the most popular and common beliefs of our times is that women are better than men at performing many tasks at once. The notion that females...
There will always be a certain class of people who sigh that Nigel Farage only reaps what he sows. Ever since milkshakes starting being tossed at a...
The timing of the death this weekend of Ken Bates, the former owner of Chelsea and Leeds United, will have struck many older football fans as...
In an age in which we continue to hear so much about our ‘anxious generation’, it’s heartening to read about one young individual who hasn’t...
You frequently hear the charge today that the social contract in Britain has broken down. And there is much evidence to support this accusation. The...
The annual Pride parades celebrated across the globe are not the events they used to be. First held in New York City on 28 June 1970 and going by the...
One could be forgiven for thinking that the extensive coverage given to the fiasco surrounding Hammersmith Bridge is typical of a capital-centric...
‘Too big to go down’ is an old football maxim and a cautionary tale. It refers to the complacent attitude that creeps up on established clubs, a...
June is a month most people anticipate for various reasons, it heralding the Isle of Wight Festival, the Summer Solstice and Wimbledon. It’s also a...
The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...
The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...
The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...
Long gone is the time, towards the end of the last decade, when we all laughed off ‘safe spaces’ as the latest, neurotic fad confined to...
It’s been an unrelenting dynamic of hyperliberalism that when it comes to the teaching of history and literature, it’s imperative that the works...
How can you tell when an asylum seeker professing to be child is lying? Often, it’s because he has crow’s feet, a receding hair-line and a beard....
How can you tell when an asylum seeker professing to be child is lying? Often, it’s because he has crow’s feet, a receding hair-line and a beard....
A whole raft of new terminology has emerged since the Great Awokening ten years ago. Much of it suggests that politics has become increasingly...
Not content to degrade and mangle the English language in their mission to make it conform to their progressive ideology, the forces of...
The foremost question Labour party members should be asking themselves this morning, following yesterday’s predicted disastrous showing in the...
The signs that civic society in this country is disintegrating grow more apparent by the week. In a year which has witnessed the arrival in earnest of...
When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...
When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...
In recent years it’s become a hackneyed truism that Nordic nations have found the key to happiness. The Danes, who often take first place in global...
In recent years it’s become a hackneyed truism that Nordic nations have found the key to happiness. The Danes, who often take first place in global...
Every year it’s the same old story, and it’s always inaugurated by the usual collection of technocratic mediocrities and simple-minded leftists....
Immanuel Kant, who was born on 22 April 1722, is perhaps best known for two things: writing The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) – one of the most...
Much has been written in recent days about the outlandish proposals and deplorable opinions of the Green Party candidates standing for the forthcoming...
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