Peter Hitchens is right, says Joanna Gray: labelling a child as 'dyslexic' only means they give up trying to read. We think we're helping by giving them 'support' but all we've done is undermined their confidence.
Politics professor James Alexander has finally got round to reading part one of Baroness Hallett's report. It's a dull pudding, he says, but does contain a few raisins.
Nick Dixon reviews Banged Up: Stars Behind Bars for the Daily Sceptic and finds it surprisingly wholesome for a reality show. Peter Hitchens’ encounter with a violent repeat offender is even quite moving.
The alarming thing about the monitoring of lockdown and vaccine sceptics by the 77th Brigade and others is that such people are now regarded not as critics of Government policy, but a danger to public safety.
The Twitter debate between Peter Hitchens and Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon, is probably the most epic of the year to date. Read a summary in the Daily Sceptic of Benjamin’s reflections on it.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Andrew Tate's arrest in Romania, Nick's new year's resolution to drink more and whether apologies work with the Left.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, analyses the conservative philosophy of Peter Hitchens, whom he thinks is as talented a polemicist as his brother Christopher.
