This essay, on how the demand for a more civilised discourse has itself become a weapon in a polarised debate, was my Observer column this week.  It was published on 21 April 2019, under the headline ‘From David Lammy to Roger Scruton, we rush to damn our opponents’. ‘We can’t carry on like this, where disagreements over political issues become so visceral that those on the other side of a debate aren’t only mistaken but are evil, pernicious and wicked.’ So wrote Labour […]

Categories: Politics • Tags: david lammy, george eaton, new statesman, public discourse, roger scruton