Jamie Weir
Jamie C. Weir is an evolutionary biologist interested in cultural and historical matters. You can follow his writing on Substack
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII