It is hard not to be cynical about “the media” these days, especially if you work in it. Spend any significant amount of time reading newspapers and magazines, watching cable news, or following discussions on Twitter, and you notice that …
Thread by Todd Kenyon @TTBikeFit Feb 19, 2022
Something's rotten in Scotland, and it's not the haggis. PHS (Public Health Scotland) has now decided that it's CRUCIAL to adhere to best practices in data presentation and analysis. As such, they will stop reporting data by vaccination status. And …
Thread by Piers Robinson @PiersRobinson1 Feb 18, 2022
What is now happening in #Ottawa is the direct result of a broad-ranging political and economic agenda, being implemented under the cover of COVID-19, and which is leading us toward tyranny @Tim_Hayward_ @timtron2020 @ggreenwald @glenninluton #TogetherDeclaration thread: https://t.co/HkKm3PQbjX
— Piers …
How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
What did the sensitivity readers say? And did I care? Of all the aspects of the recent attempt to cancel my work, the one that seems to fascinate most people is the moment when my publishers sent my Orwell Prize-winning …
How James O’Brien destroyed the phone-in
For almost two decades, the biggest show on LBC has been Nick Ferrari at breakfast, followed in the schedule by James O’Brien, the latter playing, according to Miranda Sawyer in The Observer, “Alan Partridge to Ferrari’s Chris Morris”. But …
How James O’Brien destroyed the phone-in
For almost two decades, the biggest show on LBC has been Nick Ferrari at breakfast, followed in the schedule by James O’Brien, the latter playing, according to Miranda Sawyer in The Observer, “Alan Partridge to Ferrari’s Chris Morris”. But …
Why Twitter is so awful
When I began writing for UnHerd, I was a nobody with an anonymous Twitter account. That’s less the case now, which is nice in many ways. But there’s a lovely facelessness, and freedom to reinvent yourself, that I miss about …
Is it illegal to insult Captain Tom?
When the Comanche chief Tosahwi surrendered to Philip Sheridan in 1869, he described himself as “a good Indian”. “The only good Indian,” the General is said to have replied, “is a dead Indian”. This genocidal epigram has been adapted for …
You can’t cancel poetry
The last copies of England, Poems from a School are piled up on my kitchen table along with heaps of all my other Picador books going back to 1996. Dozens of them — too many to store, but I felt …
We have all lost the argument
The study of arguments is one of the thriving intellectual pursuits of a time — and is it any wonder? Social media’s business model depends on perpetual rancour and the amplification of extreme points of view. Twitter often reminds me …
Neil Oliver & Nick Hudson: a Twitter Space interview by @efenigson and @GalG__
In this Twitter Space interview, Neil Oliver and Nick Hudson connected with Efrat Fenigson and Gal.G about everything we are currently faced with – from our combined concern for the children, truths uncovered and narratives, all the way to finding…
The UK ‘Vaccination’ Programme. Part 2: Virtue and Terror
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