David Beer
David Beer is Professor of Sociology at the University of York.
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
In praise of Pixar
The animation studio produces surprisingly sound as well as entertaining films
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
