Francis Emerson
Francis Emerson is an Old Etonian ('20) now studying at Oxford. He's interested in politics, art, and culture.
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread