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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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrage The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
