Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Exhausting, divisive and irrational
Academia must undo the excesses of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
Against sacrificing academic excellence
Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
Fanfares for the common man
Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success