Fred Skulthorp
Fred Skulthorp is an occasional writer. He tweets at @skulthorp
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Against the consultancy blob
Why are we still listening to the behavioural insights team?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism