The Left has hijacked women's 'suicidal empathy' to convince them to support victim groups – like trans 'women' and radical Islamists – that clash with their own interests. Joanna Gray has a plan to rescue them.
If there's one thing British politics was crying out for it was not a new centrist damp squib, says Joanna Gray. But the launch of Prosper allows us to reminisce happily about other hopeless political offerings.
The proposal to ban social media for under-16s just illuminates deeper problems in our society, says Joanna Gray. We've lost sight of how parents are supposed to take responsibility for how their children spend their time.
From catastrophic energy policies to migrant hotels and the Chagos giveaway, it might seem that Labour's policies are pure chaos. But beneath them all is Left-wing logic built on faulty premises, says Joanna Gray.
Blair-era veteran Alan Milburn has reinvented himself as an unemployment tsar for Keir Starmer. It's just a pity, says Joanna Gray, that it's Milburn's own legacy that has left so many young people out of work.
Those who read the Daily Sceptic are the sort of folk who spot rum stories years before they're fully investigated by the mainstream media. Joanna Gray looks ahead to which scandals might break into the mainstream in 2026.
"We have no idea why population growth has gone into reverse," wrote Louise Perry recently. Nonsense, says Joanna Gray. It's no mystery why women have stopped having children.
The arts are being slow to realise woke has peaked. But as the tap of DEI and Net Zero funding and narratives emanating from the US dries up, they will surely catch on, says Joanna Gray.
As Britain continues its slide into social and cultural decay, the festive period is a time to remember that, while enshittification is inevitable, there is hope while we can remember what is good, says Joanna Gray.
Podcasts are great. But by leading us to spend our time wearing headphones listening to others chat, they're leaving us more isolated than ever, says Joanna Gray. What we need are podcasts that bring us together.
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