Welcome to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, a fatuous echo chamber of self-congratulation

Fighting the culture wars doesn’t come cheap these days. Tickets for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference at the Excel Centre in London cost a discounted £450. A bargain said the organisers, as the original price was £1500. Maybe they had a point. All 4,000 tickets were sold long before the event began. Even access to a livestream set you back £150. A meta-event where only the global elite are welcome to watch a global elite take on the global elite.

This was alt-right heaven. A gathering of some of the biggest names on the circuit. Douglas Murray. Jordan Peterson. Nigel Farage. Niall Ferguson. An echo chamber of self-referential congratulation. A place where people come to have their ideas confirmed, not challenged.