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
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
