Nicholas Shackel
Nicholas Shackel is a Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His research is concerned with rationality and with paradoxes.
Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma
Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
