Spiked, June 7, 2019

Everyone’s turning into Rick from The Young Ones
Branding people you don't like ‘Nazis’ is infantile and dangerous.

Spiked, June 1, 2018

Veganism and politics of purity
The rise militant veganism reflects our misanthropic age

Spiked, March 23, 2018

Hope Not Hate: Anti-fascist authoritarianism

Well-meaning censors are the most dangerous of all

Spiked, January 19, 2018

Blue Monday: why unhappiness is good for you
Nietzsche knew the score: joy is impossible without pain.

Spiked, January 12, 2018

Why the left loathes the Mail
Bashing the Mail has become the ultimate virtue-signal.

Spiked, October 5, 2017

How the left and right switched places

It’s now the left that views Man as fallen and corrupt.

Spiked, August 25, 2017

The alt-left: toy-smashing tosspots
Both the alt- right and left are engaging in moronic behaviour.

Spiked, July 14, 2017

Islamism is a far bigger problem than Islamophobia
Why the commentariat is weirdly obsessed with anti-Muslim prejudice.

Spiked, July 7, 2017

The compassion paradox
'Kinder, gentler' political activism is so often the opposite.

Spiked, June 2, 2017

The myth of 'caring liberals'
Progressive politics is now about feeling good, not doing good.

Specator blogs, June 1, 2017

Sticking up a ‘Vote Labour’ placard is an exercise in virtue signalling

Patrick West

Spiked, May 12, 2017

It isn't the Tories out to get the NHS - it's the EU
Lefties, if you want to save ‘Our NHS’, become Brexiteers.

Spiked, April 27, 2017

General Election: spare us the braindead memes
Social-media activism is the preserve of shallow thinkers.

Spiked, April 7, 2017

Brexitphobic comedians are the real populists
Sneering at the ‘enemy within’, stand-ups today are bien pensant demagogues.

Spiked, February 24, 2017

Meet the NHS extremists
Worship of the NHS is the dying cry of Labourism.

Spiked, February 2, 2017

Fahrenheit 451 is a better guide than 1984
Ray Bradbury foretold the tyranny of ‘You Can’t Say That!’.

Spiked, February 3, 2017

Whatever happened to left-wing Euroscepticism
True leftists should be Team Brexit.

Spiked, January 26, 2017

We have reached peak 'you're racist!'
The charge of racism is now used to silence people we disagree with.

Spiked, January 20, 2017

At last - A President who doesn't claim to be Irish
Trump has broken with the blarney of claiming green roots.

Spiked, November 25, 2016

The wrath of the Do-Gooders
Are bien pensant observers the most hateful people in politics?