The Madness of Ancestral Guilt

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The modern obsession with ancestral sin reveals a dangerous intellectual impoverishment in our society. The manufactured outrage over MI6’s new chief Blaise Metreweli’s Nazi grandfather isn’t just misguided—it’s a deliberate distraction from the genuine security threats facing Britain today that our now desperate enemies picked up on and use against us. While the chattering classes hyperventilate over century-old ghosts, China’s MSS recruits … Continue reading The Madness of Ancestral Guilt

Tinker, Tailor, Publisher, Spy

BY GLORIA MOSS & NIALL McCRAE How Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gatekeeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific … Continue reading Tinker, Tailor, Publisher, Spy