Secularisation is the theory that across time, in the West, religion will become less important and will be replaced by reason and science. But there’s something about it which seems to induce an aspect of religion — fervent belief — in the sociologists who explore it. In 1999, American sociologist Rodney Stark (1934–2022) published a […]
Woke academia despises para-academia. Para-academia, after all, challenges the dogmas that many of them rely on to feel that they are morally superior to others and so allay their own insecurities. Such people are, further, heavily invested in Woke academia — their status and even livelihood depends on it — so any challenge to it […]
The trans lobby use the same emotionally manipulative argument again and again for putting sexually confused children on puberty blockers and insisting that deluded people be permitted to mutilate their bodies: “They find it so distressing that their body is not aligned with the sex they supposedly feel they are in the minds that they […]
For American readers what I am about to write about the mother country may sound unbelievable, but, incredibly, it is true. In 2024, a young signpost maker and father of one called Sam Melia was jailed for putting perfectly legal stickers on lamp posts. The leader of the Hundred Hands campaign and activist in a […]
The increasing ethnic diversity of England – due to 30 years of mass-immigration combined with the much higher birth-rate of Muslim immigrants in particular – has led to an extremely emotional debate over what it means to be English. The Pakistani Labour Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has asserted that she is “English” and the Prime […]
Bothelford’s Gone Edward McLaren Maldon Press, 2026 From the publisher: Edward McLaren is an academic, journalist, and novelist living in Oxford. He draws upon a wide range of influences, blending myth, politics, and romanticism. I don’t tend to read many novels, but Edward McLaren’s Bothelford’s Gone is a rare exception. I couldn’t put it down. […]
In the UK, there is a group called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate. It is a Transatlantic NGO based in London and Washington, DC, run by an Afghani-British Labour activist called Imran Ahmed. In December 2025, President Donald Trump banned this man from the United States due to being a “key collaborator with the […]
