Edward Skidelsky
Edward Skidelsky is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter
Did the West provoke Russia?
Tony Brenton argues that it did and Lawrence Freedman argues that it did not
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
