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    Nov 12

    'Hysteria is contagious’ Lionel Shriver and Brendan O'Neill discuss her reluctant vote for Biden, the rottenness of identity politics and the horrors of a masked society:

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  2. 34 minutes ago

    The Western media's attitude towards Hungary is a disgrace. It misrepresents it as a one-party state and denigrates it as bigoted. Their real problem with Hungary is simple: it dissents from the woke globalism of Western elites, says

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Public libraries in the Netherlands are banning kids’ books featuring the festive character ‘Black Pete’. They feel this aspect of Dutch tradition is ‘contrary to good morals’ and akin to ‘fascism’. But Black Pete has nothing to do with race.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    "The prospect of a vaccine could make things worse. People will say we just have to hunker down until we all get vaccinated, but that could take years. Meanwhile, governments will feel they can lock us down indefinitely.” Lionel Shriver on the vaccine

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  5. 7 hours ago

    11 students have committed suicide this semester – that’s 11 more than have died of Covid. Yet we’re still confined to our rooms, doing online learning in the same cramped halls we sleep in. And university unions want to keep us restrained, says

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  6. 8 hours ago

    Never in history has so much power been concentrated in so few companies. Big Tech firms are just as ruthless as any other capitalists. But their power is concealed through progressive-sounding politics, says

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  7. 8 hours ago

    “So many people tell me they agree with me but are frightened to speak out. They’re frightened of losing their jobs, of being ostracised. How did we get here?” and on Culture Wars:

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  8. 9 hours ago

    The No10 row between the Brexit ‘bad boys’ and ‘Princess Nut Nuts’ has been reduced to the most patronising gender stereotyping. No, women are not more consensual and competent, and men are not more hard and abrasive, says

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  9. 10 hours ago

    It seems there has been a woke coup in Downing St. The Brexit faction is out, and the PC lobby is in. Boris is drifting further from ‘red wall’ voters. They want a PM who will stand up to elite consensus opinion, not a woke stooge, says Brendan O’Neill

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    12 hours ago

    By me: 'Right now, the last thing Britain needs is a political gender war. We don’t need less testosterone or more oestrogen. The problems we face are far bigger than this.'

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  11. 11 hours ago

    Anti-vaxxer sentiment is not the product of populism or right-wing conspiracy theorists. It's the 20-year-old offspring of all those in the media and cultural elites who embraced and promoted the anti-MMR nonsense of Andrew Wakefield, says Tim Black

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  12. 12 hours ago

    During the first lockdown, Covid was allowed to rip through care homes. Now, due to inhumane visiting restrictions, homes have become like prisons. Residents are lonely, and that has health costs of its own, says

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    12 hours ago

    In the year of Covid, we have failed the elderly. First, Covid was allowed to rip through care homes. Now, older people are being left to fend for themselves, with visits from relatives restricted. My latest for :

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  14. 13 hours ago

    The ‘Brexit boys’ Cummings and Cain have been slammed as macho bullies, while the ‘consensual’ and ‘competent’ women of No10 are praised for cleaning up their mess. This gender stereotyping is unedifying nonsense, says

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    14 hours ago

    I’m in ’s new documentary about offence culture and its impact on the arts. TONIGHT at 10pm on .

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  16. 14 hours ago

    Kids’ books featuring the Dutch Christmas figure of ‘Black Pete’ are being banned from public libraries in the Netherlands. Calls to ban Black Pete have become an annual tradition. It’s a shame they’ve finally succeeded.

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  17. 15 hours ago

    How can university unions keep a straight face while talking about ‘high-quality remote learning’? This does not exist. The UCU cannot claim to support students while wanting them confined to their rooms. Students have been abandoned, says

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  18. 15 hours ago

    Boris Johnson has tested negative for Covid. He has no Covid symptoms. He has Covid antibodies, so is most likely immune. And yet he is still self-isolating for 14 days. This blind devotion to nonsensical rules is utterly mad.

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  19. 16 hours ago

    Big Tech is now the most powerful wing of the capitalist class, and they overwhelmingly backed Joe Biden. Biden’s transition team is full of execs from Google and other tech firms. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, says

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  20. 17 hours ago

    Boris is bottling out of the culture wars. He is now surrounded by woke advisers encouraging him to be more PC. But people want a PM who will stand up to the identitarian craziness and anti-British outlook of the woke elites, says Brendan O’Neill

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  21. 18 hours ago

    The Scottish government has introduced a ban on smacking. This won't do anything to protect kids from abuse. But by turning all physical discipline into a matter for the police, it will criminalise parents, says Jamie Gillies

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