David Wootton
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He tweets at @ProfWootton
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
It is time to bury Boris
Every day of Johnson as PM is another day in which the Tory party sinks deeper into crisis
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”