David Oldroyd-Bolt
David Oldroyd-Bolt is a writer, broadcaster and historian
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country