Opinion: The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Why, asks Amardeep Singh Dhillon, do we reduce trans and minority rights to questions of culture as if their impacts weren't grimly material?
Tag: culture wars
Opinion: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget Didn’t Crash the Economy Again. So Why Aren’t Tories Pleased?
Tom Peters
The budget was a departure from the government's strategy of actively causing chaos and instability, writes Tom Peters.
Report: The Dairy Industry is Blaming Vegans for Its Decline
Sophie K Rosa
The UK’s biggest dairy company is begging consumers not to “cancel the cow”. Yet with only around 2-3% of the population cutting out dairy, vegans aren't what’s hurting the industry. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?
Priyanka Raval
Between the Colston statue toppling and the Kill the Bill riots, it's easy to see Bristol as a bastion of radical action. In reality, the city’s working class is deeply divided, writes Priyanka Raval.
Opinion: Liberating Trans People Means Liberating Everyone
Shon Faye
It is only through solidarity, compassion and radical reimagining that we can build a more just and joyful world, not just for trans people, but for all of us.
Opinion: The American Right Knows How to Fight a Culture War
Kojo Koram
We're lucky the British right hasn't learnt from the sophisticated and strategic attacks of their US counterparts. But they still could.
Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord
Sandeep Sandhu
Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.
Opinion: By Stoking Britain’s Culture War, Boris Johnson is Playing the Long Game
Samuel Earle
While most voters don’t know what the ‘culture war’ even is, the Tories are making it the centrepiece of their governing strategy. Samuel Earle argues Johnson, like Thatcher, is playing the long game – and total control over the terms and conditions of political debate is the goal.
Downstream: 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.
Ash Wednesday: The Rule Britannia Brouhaha Is a Paranoid Fantasy
The Rule Britannia brouhaha is a paranoid fantasy – and that’s precisely why it’s such an effective political weapon.
Analysis: Outrage Drives Clicks, Rage Sells Stories: The Brutal Economy of the Culture War
Sam Harrison
With Twitter begrudgingly apologising for its slow response to musician Wiley’s antisemitic rant, despite it violating the site's guidelines for hate speech, it comes as no surprise that the posts stayed up for as long as they did, writes Sam Harrison. Twitter is merely following the economic logic of the ‘culture-industrial complex’, which sees media companies profit off of online controversy.
Opinion: Lawfare is an Attack on Free Speech and a Threat to Democracy
Keir Milburn
A journalist suing his critics is an egregious attack on democratic norms, writes Keir Milburn. To fight back effectively, we must situate attempts to silence the left within a wider, global trend of limiting democracy and extending free speech only to those who can afford it.
Ash Wednesday: The Woke Brigade Have Gone Too Far!!!1
Free speech is under attack!!1 From something far more dangerous than the government…. Undergraduates.
All The Best: The Straight White Man Who‘s Upset He Can’t Go to Labour’s Equalities Conference Does Not Exist
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin are joined by Ash Sarkar to chat the snowflake right, culture wars, why Arsenal is a euphemism for our broken economy and which Kanye album is best.