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The case needs to be remade for full-on emotional repression. I call for a total and complete shutdown of showy, annoying, whingy displays of emotion in public until we work

I'd rather be deeply embedded in 1 culture & language, which is my own & thereby provides v strong roots, than have a passing relationship with several different cultures, or

Total, all encompassing groupthink within academic/'intellectual' publishing - where the acceptable political opinions range from 'far left' to 'hyperliberal left' - is leading to a narrowing range of debate, which

Problem is Liz that it would disproportionately put money into the pockets of people who are already relatively affluent and thus have a lower marginal propensity to consume. Bad class

Some people have kindly explained the culture of safetyism to me. Sounds like a recipe for a world so boring and stodgy one would die of boredom, not hurty words.

Do people in the social sciences and humanities (esp. history) ever get bored by doing PhDs/research on the 'race/gender/colonial' aspects of x or y? I certainly get bored of hearing

I think what nauseates me the most about so much contemporary ID/gender politics is how self-obsessed it is. So much navel-gazing and whining, based on the usually false assumption that

I am not sure about the details of the Priti Patel case, but I do think there is a cultural divide over the nature of 'bullying'. Like many things, the

Hearing Corbynites talking about Labour Party members is an awful lot like hearing the dodgy leader of an American cult living in a shack in Idaho, complete with crazy stare

The political economy and cultural politics of the newly aligned left-managerial-graduate-liberal parties mutually reinforce each other. Student politics attracts...students, who want to pay for the privilege of 3 years of

I know various people who have pretty non-woke views (on some issues at least). When I try to warn them that soft totalitarianism is coming, they just think I'm being

There is no such thing as a secular humanist. Take it from someone who believed himself to be one for many years: eventually I realised that secular humanism is built

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