Robert Crowcroft
‘Safety first’: the war on risk
Safety has supplanted liberty as the driving force of our political culture. This is a cul-de-sac for democracy
Singled out by the stupid
Imperialism has been a fact of historical life, at all times and throughout the world. So why is the British variety singled out? Jeremy Black has raised his head above the parapet, not so much to defend the Empire as to ponder why it arouses such animosity
The priesthood of the priggish
Does contemporary Western civilisation face any threat more pressing than that which emanates from within our own societies?
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?