Black lives matter protesters stand outside a burning building. Credit: Getty

06/26/2020 - 11:56am

Welcome to the Age of Unreality June 2020 marks the end of a shared idea of truth

Thursday, June 25

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules Freddie Sayers speaks to Peter Borg-Neal, CEO of a 28-strong pub group

It’s official: Labour is no longer the party of the poor British politics really has turned upside down...

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea The author's flawed concept of psychohistory has real world examples

Wednesday, June 24

US journalists are fanning racial tensions In trying to solve one social evil, something more dangerous could emerge

The Age of Excuses is over Covid has shown how quickly an economy can transform — let's re-structure it

Tuesday, June 23

As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism The Successor Ideology is far, far worse...

A city should be a home, not a playground People are no longer tolerating deteriorating urban conditions

Monday, June 22

Junipero Serra, the latest target for progressives The Catholic saint represented an older world hated by today's Left

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism Freddie Sayers meets philosopher-mechanic Matthew Crawford

10 years on, will history repeat itself? The Osborne Budget of June 2010 was not driven by ideology alone

Saturday, June 20

Watermelons won’t save the planet Socialism cloaked in environmentalism will not deliver a sustainable future

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 19

A hate crime… without the hate A troubling development in the City of Oakland

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

For the international class, Brexit is a parochial concern This culture war is mostly irrelevant to their lives

Inequality is not a ‘Left-wing’ issue More and more voices on the Right are expressing concern

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday, June 18

Doctors’ orders: Re-open the schools! The societal costs are mounting and the risks are low

Putin’s cathedral of war embodies his civilisation state The mesmerising building is a glimpse into the country's neo-traditionalist turn

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’? One American newspaper has made a strange change to their style guide

Wednesday, June 17

Gad Saad: cancel culture is dangerous and anti-liberal Freddie Sayers chats to the evolutionary psychologist about identity politics

2020 and the coming of neo-feudalism We are slowly returning to a pre-modern caste system

The C of E has forgotten the power of the parish The Church is the last to appreciate this treasure

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle! The No10 advisor will form a critical part of the new-look Government

Tuesday, June 16

Rutger Bregman: Why civilisation is a curse Freddie Sayers hears from the Dutch historian why Hobbes was wrong

Irish schadenfreude about Britain has come full circle The turbulence of UK politics has spread to Ireland

Let’s hire unemployed youngsters to clean graffiti Now is the time to clean up the country and insulate houses

By the numbers: how Twitter distorts the news The platform's relationship with the fourth estate is far from benign

Monday, June 15

What Boris actually said about purging the past Some of our leading academics didn't like it very much

Safetyism: The new university doctrine The irrational aversion to risk is rooted in the place it ought to be challenged

When will the trade unions speak up? They sit idly by while workers face ever tightening constraints on their freedoms

Saturday, June 13

After Covid, a demographic crisis awaits The virus has revealed the acute vulnerability of ageing populations

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 12

Malcolm Turnbull: Trump is not a conservative Freddie Sayers speaks to the former Australian Prime Minister

The Wire could never be made today The show's moral complexity belongs to a bygone era