Nathan Cofnas
Nathan Cofnas is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cambridge, and a philosopher of biology and ethics. He tweets at @nathancofnas
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes