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Against the Death Penalty

The last execution in Great Britain took place in 1964, but Tory politicians still periodically raise the possibility of reinstating capital punishment in tub-thumping speeches designed to convince the public…

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Gender-Critical Philosophy: A Defence

12/09/2023
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Alex Byrne and Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin

A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: The term gender identity was first defined in two 1964 papers by UCLA psychiatrists Robert Stoller and Ralph Greenson.…

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14 min

The Left’s Silence on Islamic Homophobia

In Muslim communities, homosexuality is intrinsically linked to anxiety, intimidation, violence and, in some cases, death. For many, it involves living a closeted existence for fear of being ostracised or…

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6 min

Water Shortages: A Problem We Can and Must Solve Now

In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a historic request: he wanted a large-scale, nuclear-powered desalination programme to address the growing need for potable water in the American Southwest.…

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5 min

Outlawing Islamophobia: A Terrible Idea

In July 2023, two senior Labour councillors in Walsall were reported to police, accused of hate crimes against Ahmadiyya Muslims—a minority group within the religion. Local party leader Aftab Nawaz and…

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7 min

Questioning the Dream of a United Europe

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani (2023). A review. The dream of a united Europe has a long and deep history. In its modern…

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8 min

Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War

I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the…

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7 min

Black and British: We’re Not American

A Review of This is Not America. Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade (Atlantic, 2023). In the popular perception, America is obsessed with race, while Britain is…

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13 min

Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die

It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…

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4 min

The Case for Central Carbon Banks

In a speech to the 1989 UN General Assembly, Margaret Thatcher proclaimed: “the problem of global climate change is one that affects us all and action will only be effective…

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6 min

Hood-Adjacent: Place and Class in Black American Life

It would be wonderful to live in a world without labels or stereotypes. But it is impossible to analyse complex widescale social trends without thinking in terms of broad categories…

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7 min

A Feminist Against Modernity

Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Forum, 2023). A review. “Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be…

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13 min

Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History

Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First…

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Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

The violence that unfolded in Leicester in the late summer of 2022 was undoubtedly tragic, especially for the local South Asian communities who have shared the city for decades.

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8 min

Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right

Since they are united in their opposition to wokeness, secular liberals and the US religious right often find themselves on the same side of the current culture war. While it…

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8 min

It’s Class, Not Race

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain In 2018, Raj Chetty and his…

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12 min

Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and…

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Against the Death Penalty

Gender-Critical Philosophy: A Defence

The Left’s Silence on Islamic Homophobia

Water Shortages: A Problem We Can and Must Solve Now

Outlawing Islamophobia: A Terrible Idea

Questioning the Dream of a United Europe

Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War

Black and British: We’re Not American

Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die

The Case for Central Carbon Banks

Hood-Adjacent: Place and Class in Black American Life

A Feminist Against Modernity

Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History

Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right

It’s Class, Not Race

Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

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