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This social-media ban for teens infantilises us all

Nov 24, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

Share Topics Science & Tech UK World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. There are good reasons to be concerned about children’s social-media use. Time spent online leaves less time for hanging out in the real world. Algorithms can magnify a child’s darkest thoughts: those who worry they are too fat or the wrong gender find they are bombarded with images of people with anorexia or undergoing surgical transition.
The cruelty of campus cancel culture

Nov 12, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

Oxford student Alexander Rogers was the victim of an unforgiving rush to judgement. Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Alexander Rogers was just 20 years old when he took his own life in January this year. A popular and talented Oxford student, he was described as a ‘vibrant presence’ in the Junior Common Room of Corpus Christi College.
After the election, the rage against white women

Nov 10, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

The Democrats are once again shocked to discover that women do not vote in accordance with their genitals. Share Topics Feminism Identity Politics Politics Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. How quickly things change. At the start of this week, women voters were being feted as the voice of reason in America’s ‘gender-gap election’.
Is there really a ‘gender gap’ in the US election?

Nov 3, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

When it comes to winning over women, the divide between Harris and Trump might be closer than it seems. Share Topics Feminism Politics USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The 2024 US presidential election may be too close to call, but commentators and pollsters alike seem clear about one thing: Trump vs Harris is a battle of the sexes.
What’s so triggering about The Canterbury Tales?

Oct 15, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

Share Topics Culture Free Speech UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Over the past decade, universities have slapped ‘trigger warnings’ on everything from to entire fields of law. They have warned archaeology students about bones, theology students about the crucifixion and forensic-science students about dead bodies.
How schools are turning kids against their families

Sep 28, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

Share Topics Culture Identity Politics Long-reads UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Education in the UK has become ever more politicised in recent years. Through the curriculum and beyond, our schools are being used to inculcate children with values that may run directly counter to those of their family and community. As I explore in a new report published this week – Teachers or Parents: Who Is Responsible for Raising the Next Generation?
The ‘freebies’ scandal exposes the entitlement of the woke

Sep 25, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams |Fraser Myers

Labour bigwigs are so convinced of their own virtue that they really think they can do no wrong. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. For Labour cabinet ministers, politics really is the gift that keeps on giving.
Why Labour is leaving pensioners out in the cold

Sep 11, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams

The elderly are one of the only vulnerable groups that it’s now acceptable to hate. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. There’s a new ‘nasty party’ in Westminster. Having decided to scrap winter fuel payments for 10million pensioners, it’s surely Labour that deserves the accolade.
Lessons about ‘fake news’ are indoctrination masquerading as education

Aug 13, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams |Fraser Myers

Labour is exploiting the unrest to bring politics further into the classroom. Share Topics Free Speech Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. One of the most shocking things about the outbreak of violence and disorder that has recently hit Britain is that some of those involved were just children.
The Kemi Badenoch ‘bullying’ claims reek of desperation

Aug 6, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Joanna Lee Williams |Fraser Myers

Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Kemi Badenoch, widely backed to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, has been accused of bullying by a small number of officials who worked under her at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The allegations, which were actively solicited by a Guardian journalist, have been rebuffed by the DBT and denied by Badenoch.