Hooray for Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Political Correctness
My post earlier this week about a feminist society apparently colluding in the silencing of women has been widely shared in the past few days. There have been hundreds of new visitors to this blog....
View ArticleRhodes, Political Correctness and the Censorship of History
You’re all aware of the controversy surrounding the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford University, right? To recap: Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) was the colonialist, businessman and white supremacist whose...
View ArticleGoogle Search Links To This Blog Suppressed by Right To Be Forgotten Laws
Well, this is interesting. Due to a request under data protection law in Europe, Google can no longer show one or more pages from your site in Google Search results. This only affects responses to some...
View ArticleOn This Nasty Business About Statues of Racists
President Trump seems determined fan the flames of the Charlottesville controversy (and tragedy). He was criticised for his failure to condemn the behaviour of far-right groups that led to the death of...
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Discussing Free Speech and Richard Littlejohn on BBC Radio London
On Sunday morning, I was delighted to be invited on to Jamoké Fashola’s BBC Radio London Breakfast show, to discuss free speech. This week, the Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn caused outrage...
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Notes On A ‘Civilised’ Debate
Historian Professor Mary Beard posted a picture of herself in tears after being accused of racism Over the past few days a debate has erupted concerning a tweet posted by the historian Mary Beard. Here...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness: Opening Eyes or Closing Minds?
Today, the Speakers Corner Trust publishes a debate between myself and Dr Claire Fox from the Institute of Ideas over the proposition Political Correctness: Opening Eyes or Closing Minds? You can read...
View ArticlePopulist Correctness
At last! A neologism for a concept that I have long believed needs to be named and critiqued. In a discussion about political correctness on the Ezra Klein Show podcast, journalist Adam Serwer...
View ArticleActually, Nick, ‘Wokeness’ Helps Free Speech
What do people mean when they use the term ‘woke’ in a political context? By the time it crossed my radar, it had come to mean, simply, an acceptance that racism, sexism and other prejudices were still...
View ArticleWhy Political Correctness is the Opposite of Orwell’s Newspeak
Yesterday I fired off a Twitter thread about Orwell and political correctness. It was my good fortune that the author Dorian Lynskey (author of a ‘biography’ of Nineteen Eighty-Four) chose to retweet...
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