It came as no surprise after Brexit and the election of Donald Trump that, rather than analyse movements rejecting the policies and edicts of an unaccountable, ruling elite in government, business, academia and the media, the Left embraced paranoia, denigration, conspiracy theory and demands for censorship

The fervour that informs contemporary anti-racist rhetoric, and that of environmental groups like Extinction Rebellion, and the LGBT+ movements that share its goals and feed off its righteous indignation, represents a calculated, iconoclastic assault on the West’s history and culture

The Tory model to avoid a low-wage economy that prevailed during the Regency years reflected a uniquely British school of conservative pragmatism, one that greatly facilitated innovations in science and their industrial application. Railways, gas lighting, the ambitions and achievements of Brunel, McAdam and the others who harnessed science to commerce, they were the first kicks of embryonic modernity

The 'adults in the room', as former Greek finance minister Yannis Varoufakis christened the likes of Jerome Powell, Andrew Bailey and Christine Lagarde, never have to account for policy errors or the manner in which their attempts to correct them compound fiscal uncertainty at the expense of the anxious and indebted middle classes. The developed world is in a post-lockdown debt trap

In 2008 the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism announced its intention to reverse the conventional perception of terrorism and the methodology of terrorism research. It is this perspective -- terrorists as victims, victims as terrorists -- that now shapes much media coverage, as all who have been following the nightly news in recent days will know

As the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco observed in a different ideological context, fascism is political necrophilia which exalts killing and martyrs. Contemporary Islamo-Fascism is similarly obsessed. It means, as the disturbing images on the internet sickeningly demonstrate, an adoring fealty to death as an instrument of both a politics and faith

William McConnel was an outstanding example of the principled Victorian entrepreneurs who forged modern Britain. But such a background is anathema to the cultural Maoists who currently run Wales, so his reputation and that of the slate-mining village he built needed to be dragged through the mud, which it duly has been on the most tenuous grounds

Since 2022, there has been a heightened strategic and diplomatic […]

If the spirit of tolerance endorses the fundamentalist 'other', it also endorses intolerance at second hand. This is the West’s multicultural dilemma. It requires all citizens to tolerate non-Western minorities in the name of diversity, but the minority need not adapt to the secular values of the adopted country. Put simply, cultures move from barbarism to the rule of universal reason at different speeds