A Good Laugh
Farewell to the charm and sleaze of Boris Johnson.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
UK
A collection of 55 posts
Shuttering the Tavistock
The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.
Bernard Lane
· 10 min read
Boris Beheaded
From restoration to regicide.
Robin Ashenden
· 9 min read
How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism
One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered to debate him, as did a
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis
Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 16 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.
Quillette
· 10 min read
Breaking the Union
The SNP has been in government in Scotland since 2007, and the determination and political will with which it has pursued independence has been impressive.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report
Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”
Damian Counsell
· 24 min read
Between Hartlepool and Hampstead—Paul Embery on the British Labour Party and the Working Class
There wasn’t a key single moment, but there were a series of events if you like, which occurred in the first decade of this century.
Carlo Massimo
· 16 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use.
Noah Carl
· 11 min read
Scottish Nationalists in Turmoil
The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
COVID-19's Death Toll: A Historical Perspective
The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the age-standardised mortality rate in England each year going back to 2001.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks
The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 19 min read
Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness
The money offered by benevolent citizens and the abundance of cheap drugs act as a magnet for the area.
Noel Yaxley
· 11 min read