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
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts