Edward Skidelsky
Edward Skidelsky is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating