menu_open
Laurie Wastell

Laurie Wastell

The Spectator

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Why we should defend Nathan Cofnas’s academic freedom

After a controversial blog post he made earlier this year, the professional career of Dr Nathan Cofnas, a Leverhulme early-career research fellow at...

06.05.2024 20

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

The outrageous shutdown of NatCon Brussels

Brussels A familiar refrain at any National Conservatism conference is that leftist elites are censorious, authoritarian and intolerant of free...

17.04.2024 5

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

Brussels police / The outrageous shutdown of NatCon Brussels

Brussels A familiar refrain at any National Conservatism conference is that leftist elites are censorious, authoritarian and intolerant of free...

16.04.2024 6

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

Kemi Badenoch’s diversity crusade doesn’t go far enough

This week, the equalities minister and business secretary Kemi Badenoch took aim at Britain’s woke bureaucracy. The government’s Inclusion at Work...

23.03.2024 10

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

Labour’s ‘equality’ revolution

With Sir Keir Starmer creeping closer to No. 10 every day, attention is rightly being paid to the radicalism of Labour’s agenda. Many have pointed...

09.03.2024 20

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

The shamelessness of Hope not Hate

You would think that a group called ‘Hope not Hate’ would have a lot of important things to talk about at the moment. It could look at how the...

24.02.2024 6

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

How identity politics infiltrated the judiciary

The ‘paraglider girls’ ruling last week has thrown long-standing questions about judicial impartiality in Britain into sharp relief. On Tuesday,...

19.02.2024 10

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

The problem with the ‘paraglider girls’ ruling

Yesterday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, three women were convicted of terror offences for wearing clothes or carrying signs that appeared to...

14.02.2024 5

The Spectator

Laurie Wastell

856198362c23b50b68a0a6ff2065980f