Herbert Jones
Herbert Jones is an academic at a world-leading Russell Group university, conducting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
Taking Stock
“Freedom of speech is alive and well at Oxford” — but for how much longer?
The perils of a young academic
Students must take on academic groupthink
Most Read
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
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
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
