The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Call it what it is: class war.
Tag: culture war
The Tories Want You to Panic About Sex Education
Moya Lothian-McLean
Evangelical MPs are launching a new crusade in their ongoing ‘groomer’ panic.
Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?
Priyanka Raval
Beneath militant action, deeper fractures lie.
How Christopher Hitchens Helped the Right Justify Its Colonial Wars
Kojo Koram
The late contrarian provocateur has become an almost god-like figure for conservatives.
The Right Are Panicking About Anti-Racism – As Well They Should Be
David Wearing
They're playing dirty, and it's a sign of weakness.
It’s the Housing Market, Stupid: How Property Became the Battle Line of British Politics
Samuel Earle
Our political landscape has been warped by a single asset.
Attacks on the Arts Are Part of the Tories’ Culture War
Chardine Taylor-Stone
By cutting funding for arts subjects at universities, the Tories could be about to immiserate Britain's arts and culture industry for a generation.
By Stoking Britain’s Culture War, Boris Johnson is Playing the Long Game
Samuel Earle
The Tories’ grip on society is tightening – and Labour will need more than a bigger Union Jack to stop it.
Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? Interview With Nish Kumar
This week on Downstream Ash Sarkar met with Nish Kumar – comedian and host of The Mash Report – to talk about how he became the accidental face of the Defund the BBC movement, and why rightwing comics are the real snowflakes.
Labour and the Tories Have Reduced Veterans to Instruments in the Culture War
Joe Glenton
‘Cultural Marxism’ Is a Far Right Conspiracy Theory
Cultural Marxism, increasingly mentioned by right-wing politicians, pundits and terrorists, is a conspiracy theory. But where does it come from, what does it mean and what is its political function for those who deploy it? Aaron Bastani traces the roots of the term from 1930s Germany through the fantasist ravings of Lyndon Larouche to its […]
Lawfare is an Attack on Free Speech and a Threat to Democracy
Keir Milburn
This Isn’t a ‘Culture War’ – It’s a Battle Over the Terms of Solidarity
David Wearing
Ash Meets Shami Chakrabarti | The (Former) Most Dangerous Woman in Britain
Ash Sarkar met up with Labour’s Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti to discuss the far-right, Prince Andrew, and whether she’d ever advise John McDonnell to break the law.