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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Patrick West |Brendan O'Neill |Joel Kotkin
Woke is a regressive, anti-Enlightenment movement, but it still appeals to a desire to remake humanity.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Patrick West |Tom Slater
His was a rare voice of dissent that couldn’t be silenced or dismissed.
Share Topics Politics USA World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The reason European politicians were so enraged and upset by JD Vance’s speech in Munich last Friday was that they simply weren’t used to being told the honest, awful truth – or being obliged to hear it.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Patrick West
The virtue-signallers’ silence over the grooming-gangs scandal speaks volumes.
Share Topics Identity Politics Politics UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In recent weeks, we’ve seen what happens when those with an instinct for self-preservation are left in charge. We’ve subsequently read the reaction of certain selfish types possessed with a similar instinct.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Patrick West
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday aged 65, may have belonged to that unhappy category of performers who were ‘troubled’ – tormented by insecurities and afflicted by addiction – but he also joins that distinguished pantheon of entertainers who made their mark for their rude and bawdy humour.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Patrick West
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday aged 65, may have belonged to that unhappy category of performers who were ‘troubled’ – tormented by insecurities and afflicted by addiction – but he also joins that distinguished pantheon of entertainers who made their mark for their rude and bawdy humour.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Patrick West
Censorship and the silencing of dissenting voices has been a defining feature of the 21st century. It’s curious, because it wasn’t meant to be like this. This epoch, as the tech libertarian utopians of the 1990s so eagerly pronounced, was going to be one of unprecedented and untrammelled freedom. The internet, which burst into public consciousness back then, promised as much.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Patrick West
Censorship and the silencing of dissenting voices has been a defining feature of the 21st century. It’s curious, because it wasn’t meant to be like this. This epoch, as the tech libertarian utopians of the 1990s so eagerly pronounced, was going to be one of unprecedented and untrammelled freedom. The internet, which burst into public consciousness back then, promised as much. Social media, which erupted a decade later, promised even more. And then it all went wrong. We shouldn’t have been surprised.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Patrick West
The charge of “misinformation” can be pure misdirection This week, Keir Starmer joined the ranks of those shooting the messengers. He added his voice to that chorus deploring people who are in uproar about the failures that allowed the grooming gangs to go unpunished. In reply to Elon Musk’s provocations that “Starmer is complicit in the crimes” and that Jess Phillips is a “rape genocide apologist”, the Prime Minister denounced those “spreading lies and misinformation” on this matter.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Patrick West
There was much jubilation yesterday among advocates of free speech following the news that Mark Zuckerberg is to relax restrictions on free expression on the social media platforms owned by Meta, including its most popular site, Facebook. This initiative will include doing away with politically-biased ‘fact checkers’, lifting restrictions on contentious political topics, and adding a function similar to ‘community notes’ on X.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Patrick West
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments There was much jubilation yesterday among advocates of free speech following the news that Mark Zuckerberg is to relax restrictions on free expression on the social media platforms owned by Meta, including its most popular site, Facebook. This initiative will include doing away with politically-biased ‘fact checkers’, lifting restrictions on contentious political topics, and adding a function similar to ‘community...
