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Past articles by Brendan:
The Panama Papers: rich-bashing won’t fix the crisis
Moral disgust with the super-wealthy is such lame socialism. → Read More
No, Charlie Hebdo’s editorial is not racist
Turns out the Charlie haters are even dimmer than we thought. → Read More
Trans activists really need to lighten up
Transsexuals’ histrionic response to every slight only confirms how flimsy their identity is. → Read More
The EU battle: they’re all part of Project Fear now
Both Leave and Stay play the fear card, and that’s bad for democracy. → Read More
The EU battle: they’re all part of Project Fear now
Both Leave and Stay play the fear card, and that’s bad for democracy. → Read More
One hundred years on: the dream of the Republic
The Easter Rising remains a moving, inspiring blow for freedom. → Read More
After Brussels: how to hit the terrorists where it hurts
If you’re angry about Brussels, then do what the terrorists hate most: be free. → Read More
The tyranny of censorship: Ireland’s war on ‘evil’ books
The Irish state has just banned an obscene novel. That is outrageous. → Read More
The Twitch-hunting of Joan Bakewell
She said critical things about anorexia? Cast her out! → Read More
It’s pure historical amnesia to say the Boomers had it good
Thirtysomething generational jihadists know nothing of history. → Read More
For Europe, against the EU
The progressive’s case for a Brexit. → Read More
Love democracy? Then leave the EU
Why optimists, radicals and progressives should vote out of the EU. → Read More
We’re all mental patients now
The government wants you to think you’re mentally ill. You aren’t. → Read More
We must have the freedom to hate
Hatred isn’t big or clever, but it should never be a crime. → Read More
In dystopian Britain, the police now hunt down ‘pre-rapists’
Sexual Risk Orders are ripping apart liberty and due process. → Read More
After Cologne: let’s ‘dare to say how things really are’
The furore about those sexual assaults says more about ‘our’ culture than ‘theirs’. → Read More
That thing you’re feeling about Bowie — it isn’t grief
s the grief for David Bowie real? As legions of Bowieologists and pop followers take to Twitter and elsewhere to express their shock and sorrow at his passing, that’s the question some are asking. Julie Burchill wrote a brilliantly scathing piece for the Spectator slamming the ‘sob signalling’ of Bowie fans and taking to task the talking-heads with ‘nothing to say’ yet who won’t shut up about… → Read More
Never mind Rhodes – it’s the cult of the victim that must fall
What the rotten anti-Rhodes movement reveals about 2015. → Read More
The war on rape: the logic of the lynch mob returns
e are in the midst of a war on rape. From American campuses to British courthouses, from newspaper op-ed pages to the weird world of online petitions, ‘zero tolerance’ of rape has been declared. And who could possibly be against it? No one is ‘pro-rape’. So surely everyone will cheer a war on rape. Not so fast. Wars on rape have been declared before, and often for deeply reactionary reasons,… → Read More
War on Corbyn: the Tyranny of the Moderates
Anti-Corbynism speaks to the anti-democratic drabness of our era. → Read More