News Round-Up
20 May 2024
A new survey by Civitas has ranked Britain’s universities according to how captured they are by the woke cult. Not surprisingly, Oxford and Cambridge are top of the league.
Our political elites now see ‘ideology’ as a dirty word, preferring to focus on ‘competence’. What they really mean is there can be no dissent from the Left-wing orthodoxy, and the only battle is how to manage decline.
Young people are more Left wing than ever, and are not becoming more conservative with age. It's not just wokeness – the Right have failed to address this generation's real challenges, according to Andrew Sullivan.
This is what's really driving older people into early retirement – the unrelenting, soul-destroying wokery that permeates every workplace and makes anyone to the Right of Chairman Mao feel like they don't belong.
“This week I was the victim of two non-crime hate incidents at the hands of the comedy establishment,” writes Nick Dixon. Why do the custodians of mainstream comedy hate GB News so much?
A Christmas carol rewritten to be more “inclusive” to women and "queer" people has prompted a row within the Church of England, after critics said the move was an attempt to “push political ideology”.
On any objective reading, the Royals’ treatment of Lady Hussey is nastier than her 'transgression', and it is Fulani who has behaved the most despicably, writes Ramesh Thakur.
"If nothing is done, we are headed towards a new type of fascist totalitarianism, from which there may be no escape." Thorsteinn Siglaugsson reflects on Simon Elmer's new book about the pandemic biosecurity state.
In the latest incident of academic cancel culture, a respected psychologist was forced to resign after he published criticism of a black colleague's work. 1,300 academics signed an open letter calling him "racist".
Britain is becoming more illiberal and unpatriotic as today’s increasingly woke young people become voters, yet the Tories do nothing, says Eric Kaufmann, who has written about the worrying findings of his latest survey.
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