Jamie Weir
Jamie C. Weir is an evolutionary biologist interested in cultural and historical matters. You can follow his writing on Substack
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland