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Today’s left isn't anti-austerity. They might not like Jeremy Hunt’s spending cuts, but they’re totally onboard with Net Zero, which will shred people’s living standards. They would happily sacrifice ordinary people to green dogma, says @FraserMyers https://t.co/bRK5l051FY

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Lesley Chamberlain's Nietzsche in Turin captures the agony of the philosopher’s last year of sanity, writes @patrickxwest https://t.co/836ae7o5Xz

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Parents are endlessly lectured on how to raise their children. They're told the experts know best. Jessamine Chan's "The School for Good Mothers" turns this grim reality into a chilling dystopia, says Nancy McDermott https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/20/the-dystopian-world-of-parenting-experts/

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First Roald Dahl, now Ian Fleming. The James Bond books are to be reissued in censored form, following the complaints of ‘sensitivity readers’. This is a sinister attempt to sanitise the past, says @NicholasTyrone https://t.co/z5xALXh96z

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Today’s left is wedded to racial thinking. As Kenan Malik's 'Not So Black and White' shows, racial ideas emerged as a reactionary challenge to the Enlightenment idea of equality. Now it’s seen as ‘progressive’ to divide society by race, says @danielbenami https://t.co/5W8qwLRAc8

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A British university has attached a trigger warning to George Orwell’s 1984. Orwell falling victim to Orwellianism? Satire is dead, says Brendan O’Neill https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/24/now-even-1984-comes-with-a-trigger-warning/

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Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism cried out for an alternative to the status quo. It shaped a generation of left-wingers. And yet when ordinary Brits rejected the neoliberal order in 2016, many of Fisher’s adherents ran the other way, says Tim Black https://t.co/dba73rR2BI

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Dylan Jones’s “Faster Than a Cannonball” captures the creative exuberance and libertine spirit of the Nineties, writes Henry Williams https://t.co/d3uNLmtjxH

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🎧 THE BRENDAN O’NEILL SHOW 🎧 “The power of free speech” Nadine Strossen and Brendan O’Neill on why we must defend the right to ‘hate’ Listen to the episode here 👇 https://t.co/AeFZyfDBzQ

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Mary Harrington’s “Feminism Against Progress” is cultural pessimism at its worst. The right is in serious danger of becoming a mirror image of the woke – anti-technology, anti-freedom and miserable. Cheer up, the world isn’t ending, says Brendan O’Neill https://t.co/RHFKOnguuY