Kenneth Minogue
ONLINE ONLY: Send in the Clowns
UKIP have challenged the internationalist assumptions of the political elite. Will they succeed?
Why Shouldn’t I Cheat? Everybody Else Does
England no longer expects every man to do — or even to know — his duty, and corruption is creeping into our moral culture
The Rise of Rights and the Fall of Man
Healthy societies have an inbuilt sense of how things are and ought to be. But we have abandoned common sense, integrity and virtue
Slaves of the Bonus Culture
The demise of the professions is having a profound impact, starting with the disappearance of integrity in public life
To Hell with Niceness
The spread of political ‘compassion’ has led to the breakdown of family and school discipline. The results have been catastrophic
Elie Kedourie
Kenneth Minogue recalls the great Anglo-Iraqi scholar who was both amused and outraged by the folly of intellectuals
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?