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
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology