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
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
The love that can’t be erased
A recent court case exposed the surrogacy industry’s big lie
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too