Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Being “anti-woke” as a protected philosophical belief
How can we protect free speech in professional environments
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
Why I am a Liberal National Conservative
Neutrality and balance have not yet been tried
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
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Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
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?
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister