The two most important books you can read

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: Between them, they tell us everything we need to know about the early 21st century. If there are two books that I would recommend above all to anyone living in the West in the early 21st century, they would be George Orwell's 1984, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Written …

What the cry-bullies don’t get about free speech

Julie Birchill coined the term “cry-bullies” to describe the hideous hybrid of victim and victor that characterises contemporary “progressives”. Fuelled by the poisonous ideology of “intersectionality”, which argues that everyone is merely an accumulation of either privileges or injustices, “social justice warriors” pose as victims (or claim to speak for them) while behaving like the …