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June 2025

The new antisemitism is a vibe
On Glastonbury and the moral rot of the middle class
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Xander Veridaze
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Islamophobia: when definitions become censorship
With the UK poised to define Islamophobia, we edge closer to a society where offence sets the rules — and truth backs quietly away.
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Xander Veridaze
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I’ve got some gifted Substacks to give away — want one?
Ed West, Ian Leslie, Andrew Doyle and more great writers...
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Xander Veridaze
Britain and the undiscovered country
On memory, mourning, and the stories we tell ourselves
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Xander Veridaze
Why is Britain such a mess?
On the unravelling of a country and the death of seriousness.
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Xander Veridaze
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The lanyard class and the politics of managed decline
How performance politics, policy failure, and elite disdain are fuelling the populist backlash across Britain and the West.
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Xander Veridaze
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Britain's grooming gangs scandal and the cowardice of the political class
How ideological paralysis and performative virtue enabled one of the country’s greatest moral failures.
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Xander Veridaze
The radicalisation of Stephen Fry
He accused JK Rowling of being radicalised — but what if the real transformation is his?
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Xander Veridaze
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The tyranny of kindness: when power wears a smile and calls it virtue
When power is exercised in the name of kindness, it becomes harder to question — and even harder to stop. C.S. Lewis warned us. We’d do well to listen.
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Xander Veridaze
When virtue became a status game: the hollowing of moral universalism
Moral universalism was once the West’s proudest ideal — grounded in reason, equality, and duty. Today, it survives mostly as performance, wielded less…
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Xander Veridaze
Roger Scruton vs the nonsense machine
Scruton’s defence of beauty and tradition offers a moral challenge to modern culture.
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Xander Veridaze
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