Neil O’Brien is MP for Harborough. Every day brings fresh examples of the woke revolution rolling through western institutions. The last couple of weeks saw Edinburgh University ‘cancelling’ the great Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, taking his name off...
Doug Stokes: The Conservatives must rally to the flag of the Enlightenment tradition as the culture wars rage
Doug Stokes is a Professor in International Relations at the University of Exeter. Slowly, perhaps too slowly, the Conservative Party is waking up to the importance of the ‘culture wars’. These struggles over meaning will only grow in significance as the UK charts its...
Conservatives can’t be neutral about culture
MPs are to be made to take unconscious bias training. A former Prime Minister of Australia is targeted because he is a social conservative. The British Library links changes to the way it will work to George Floyd’s murder in America. Extinction Rebellion...
BBC Director General already retreating from reform
When Tim Davie assumed the Director Generalship of the BBC, many people hoped he would bring about a cultural change at the national broadcaster. They cheered when Davie announced the targeting of left-wing comedy shows as part of a wider reforming process. Restoring...
Alexandra Marsanu: Working from home – and why we need evolution, not a revolution
Alexandra Marsanu is a Ward Chair at Holborn and St Pancras Conservatives and Deputy Chair for London at Conservative Young Women. She works professionally as a strategy consultant. A polarising debate has been taking place recently. On one hand, there is a rare...
David Gauke: We’re urged to return to the office – but Ministers must face the fact that the world of work is changing.
David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the recent general election. Some months ago, I made the observation on this site that there was a danger that the Government’s then message – ‘stay at home’ –...
The British Library Must Walk Away From Identity Politics
The British Library has become the latest once revered institution to succumb to identity politics – which have vanishingly little to do with its function – and seems to be the latest casualty of ‘the long march through the institutions’. In emails handed to The Daily...
Darren Grimes: Out of office but in power. How the Left keeps losing elections, yet gets its way nonetheless.
I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live last weekend. To put it bluntly, I was surprised to get the bid from the producer (who was a delight to work with) to speak about education. I know the BBC is set to spend £100 million on boosting its diversity and...
WATCH: “Rule Britannia!” – as sung at Last Night of the Proms (2)
The next BBC Chairman? Send for Charles Moore.
The BBC’s pusillanimous decision to have not only Rule Britannia!, but Land of Hope and Glory, played rather than sung during Last Night of the Proms is the worst of both worlds. It won’t do enough to appease a tiny woke minority, but is more than...
