James Murray
James Murray is Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and Legal Director at Doyle Clayton solicitors.
The future is bright for academic freedom
New threats to speech inquiry could inspire an unlikely consensus around openness
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
Being “anti-woke” as a protected philosophical belief
How can we protect free speech in professional environments
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects