What is the difference between art and propaganda? Well, among much else, propaganda tells you what to think. Art, meanwhile, is meant to teach you how to think—even to think for yourself. One result from that is that propaganda tells you that the world is simple, while art reflects the fact that the world is […]
We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent.
In today’s hyperconnected age, when you can conjure up any fact or compute any problem on your smartphone, is there any point in memorizing lines from a poem written decades—or even centuries—ago? Douglas Murray believes that yes, it is crucial to our very existence.
RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.
Some of Britain’s most popular sitcoms and greatest works of literature were flagged as potential signs of far-Right extremism by a counter-terror programme. The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The […]
Though a fairly recent arrival in this city I find myself strangely defensive of it. When I first moved to New York, a vast exodus of my friends started to move the other way. Something I tried not to take personally. They were headed to the usual havens: Austin, Nashville and of course Florida. How […]
Why should the Deputy Prime Minister, or anyone else in government, have to treat the civil service like remedial students at a primary school? If their work is piss-poor, why should ‘the modern workplace’ still have to make them feel positive about themselves? What should a government minister say to an official who turns in […]
The war in Ukraine looks set to move to the next level. One signal came in a passing reference about tea this week. On Wednesday, in a speech to the UK Parliament, President Zelensky reminisced about his last visit to the Westminster in 2020. On that occasion he said his hosts had given him “delicious […]
How many black cops does it take to commit a racist hate crime? The latest correct answer is ‘five’. That’s the number of policemen in Memphis who have been fired and charged with second-degree murder for the killing of Tyre Nichols.
I am keen to introduce you to a word that you may not have met for some time: NO. I know it is the way with the EU that even if an electorate says “No”, you take it to mean “Yes”.
Last year New York was struggling to absorb 6,000 migrants. Otherwise known as less than one day’s worth of illegal border-crossings at America’s southern border. Now, in 2023, we have something like 28,000 illegal migrants in New York. Otherwise known as about 3-4 days’ worth of illegal crossings at the southern border. As Mayor Adams […]
When there were real gay rights to be won, the corporate and sporting worlds were nowhere to be seen. They’re all over the rainbow people now only because the battles are won. As a result, they are overdoing it like all new converts and people are getting annoyed.