Tag: culture wars
Opinion: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget Didn’t Crash the Economy Again. So Why Aren’t Tories Pleased?
by Tom Peters
Report: The Dairy Industry is Blaming Vegans for Its Decline
by Sophie K Rosa
Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?
by 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
by Shon Faye
Opinion: The American Right Knows How to Fight a Culture War
by 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
by Sandeep Sandhu
Opinion: By Stoking Britain’s Culture War, Boris Johnson is Playing the Long Game
by 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
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
by 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
by 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.