Laurie Wastell is journalist and writer based in London.
“The culture war is no sideshow; it is a fight for Western civilisation”: An Interview with <strong>Eric Kaufmann</strong>

“The culture war is no sideshow; it is a fight for Western civilisation”: An Interview with <strong>Eric Kaufmann</strong>

Woke is one of the most important developments of our age. It is upending culture and institutions, and remaking politics.

December 10, 2024
Britain’s Captured Justice System

Britain’s Captured Justice System

The prospect of judges ruling on the putative implication of a message is a recipe for arbitrary tyranny.

December 2, 2024
The Garrick Club and Britain’s Cultural Revolution

The Garrick Club and Britain’s Cultural Revolution

British public life has by now been thoroughly colonised by leftist politics.

April 6, 2024
Britain’s ‘Extremism Crackdown’ Has Struck a Blow Against Stakeholderism

Britain’s ‘Extremism Crackdown’ Has Struck a Blow Against Stakeholderism

No group has a right to be listened to by the government simply because it claims to represent a ‘community.’

March 25, 2024
An Activist King is Bad for Britain

An Activist King is Bad for Britain

By recklessly tying the Crown to progressive issues, Charles erodes the neutrality on which his constitutional role rests.

December 13, 2023
The EU’s Disinformation War

The EU’s Disinformation War

The EU is using the Israel-Hamas conflict as a fig leaf for extending its control of the internet—but online censorship will not solve the problem of Islamism.

October 20, 2023
Britain’s Net Zero Police State

Britain’s Net Zero Police State

The new green-energy law is less a power grab by the Conservative government than a power handover to unelected technocrats.

September 25, 2023
The EU’s Orwellian Internet Censorship Regime

The EU’s Orwellian Internet Censorship Regime

The technocratic crusade against so-called disinformation is in fact nakedly political and anti-democratic.

August 24, 2023