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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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