Prof Ian Pace

You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours. Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level. His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it. What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance. The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards. Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds. A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.

All of the stuff about childless women who want children assumes that any woman who wants a child is entitled to a male partner to father that child. They are not - they have to earn that partner, and that partner has to actively want fatherhood themselves.

Conversations surrounding domestic violence frequently paint a one-sided picture: women as the eternal victims and men as the inevitable aggressors. While the door has been pried open to acknowledge that yes, men can be abused too, we must push it wider to confront an uncomfortable truth: Women can be abusive, and in some cases, even more so than men. The difference often lies in the consequences—male-perpetrated abuse can lead to more severe physical harm—but ignoring female abusers perpetuates cycles of violence that harm everyone involved. Read more here: bit.ly/41h48Rf By @LisaBritton

The number one red flag in people is their lack of empathy. They dismiss your feelings when you expect understanding, they ignore your pain when you expect compassion, and they minimize your struggles when you expect support. They do this because empathy requires effort, empathy requires humility, and empathy requires care, qualities they refuse to practice. Their absence of empathy reveals their self-centeredness, their emotional immaturity, and their inability to build genuine connection. It is not a small flaw, it is a defining trait. Lack of empathy creates coldness, creates distance, and creates harm. Never overlook this red flag, always take it seriously, because people without empathy will only guarantee neglect, indifference, and emotional damage in your life.

Egalitarian, anti-national dogmas create a form of endemic corruption. Not the financial corruption of bungs in brown envelopes, but something worse: a creeping self-censorship. ✍️ @CptHastings1916 thecritic.co.uk/how-edi-corrup…

Instead of simply disagreeing with Nick, these MPs are calling for him to be “investigated”. This is exactly why an Islamophobia definition is so dangerous. People need to be able to disagree and debate without the authorities weighing in.

No...male rape victims, by rape laws (male aggressor), is 1 in 33, CDC. Men raped in non-consenting forced penetration is 1 in 9, 79-82% by women. It's just not called rape.

Many Arab states are now more opposed to radical Islam than many Western university campuses. Let that sink in.

I have recently made the very difficult decision to break all contact with my mother. Whilst thinking about this for decades, it has been very hard. The sanctimony of motherhood needs to be challenged, and toxic maternal behaviour identified properly. More to come.

Why do feminists and domestic violence charities never call out abusive women? It’s almost as if the DV industry is corrupt and politically motivated for financial gain… #thebachelorette

@jeremymarchant Plenty of similarities

@drianpace How much of this is different from father/son envy?

Important thread. The negative impact parents can have on both daughters and sons can be massive.

Book reviews by philosophers, notoriously, can be scathing, but a sober review of a book on gender identity by the MIT philosopher (and Academic Freedom Council co-founder) Alex Byrne was deemed too dangerous to print. "The philosophy profession has shown itself to be an institution of fragile integrity when put to the test. One can only hope spines will eventually stiffen, and academic law and order is restored." philosophersmag.com/on-being-rejec…

Another thought on musical canons: I would be so happy if I thought there was tonnes more wonderful music in the Western classical tradition to be discovered, which hasn’t been canonised. But I’ve explored lots of obscure repertoire and at best there are a few bits and pieces.

Every time I read you guys shut down one of those people who excuse women who abuse men on one of my posts I smile. Three years ago that wasn't even possible. Abuse should have never been political. It's not a gendered issue, it's a victim issue, and they all matter.

A hate definition that may do more to divide Britain than protect its Muslims thejc.com/opinion/a-hate…

Louis Theroux takes the likes of HSTikkyTokky far too seriously – and then fails to ask 𝘸𝘩𝘺 there is an audience for these manosphere 'influencers'. When boys are dismissed as toxic by the mainstream, where else can they go? asks Andrew Doyle: spiked-online.com/2026/03/18/the…

appalling

"Cabot says she was told that ‘90 per cent of the online comments and hate came from women and all the in-person comments came from women.’ So not just sexism but women’s own internalised misogyny" @jowilliams293 on the dangers of watching Coldplay spectator.com/article/is-the…

Exclusive: Jewish Guardian staff ‘gaslit’ over ‘progressive antisemitism’ in Gail’s column thejc.com/news/uk/jewish…