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A Tired Fictional Genre Makes a Last Gasp Argument For ‘Grown Up’ Managerialism
The new Olivia Coleman film Wicked Little Letters pushes the tired genre of cosy English fiction, in which the loony locals need to be saved by a Theresa May-style manager, over the edge of absurdity, says J Sorel.
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Boris Johnson: How One Man Failed History
Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
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Escaping the BBC-ification of Culture
The National Theatre bookshop epitomises the BBC-ification of 'Culture' into a Public Sphere melange. A new play, The Motive and the Cue, avoids this trap, but still ultimately fails, says J Sorel.
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Is This Peak Cancel Culture? A Review of Graham Linehan’s Tough Crowd
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been admirably resilient following his brutal cancellation by the woke mob, says Ian Price. Is it too much to hope that his ordeal marks peak cancel culture?
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The British People Have Had Enough of Their Endless ‘Obligations’ to Impoverish Themselves
The British people have had enough of their seemingly endless 'obligations' to impoverish themselves for the sake of others, and belatedly politicians are waking up to this, says J Sorel.
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Covid Was a Period of Sheer Insanity. Dr Clare Craig Lays Out Just How Crazy it Was
Dr. Clare Craig's excellent new book lays bare the scientific falsehoods and destructive insanity that took hold during Covid, says Dr. Roger Watson.
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The Great Face Mask Con
Dr Roger Watson reviews two books, The Face Mask Cult by Hector Drummond and Unmasked by Ian Miller, that lay bare the scientific fictions that underpinned the great Covid face mask con.
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Lockdown Proponents Try to Evade Reckoning With Whitewash Report
The leading proponents of lockdown have tried to evade a reckoning by putting out their own whitewash report. Jeffrey Tucker is having none of it.
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‘Populism’ is Political Opposition to a Rapid Decline in Living Standards
In his new book, Matthew Goodwin shows he understands, in a way few academics do, that 'populism' is political opposition to a rapid decline in living standards.
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Zika: The Pandemic That Never Was
The 2015 Zika panic, like the 2020 Covid panic, resulted in extreme global over-reaction. Yet when the smoke cleared it turned out there was no microcephaly epidemic. But the world just moved on and forgot.
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