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
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history