Jo Phoenix
Professor Jo Phoenix, Chair in Criminology, The Open University. After spending two decades researching sex, gender and sexualities as well as youth justice, Jo Phoenix helped co-found The Open University Gender Critical Network and is currently writing about academic freedom, ethics, politics and research.
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
