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Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
It’s wrong to lie to children
The Department of Education should learn this simple lesson
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
Medicine’s culture of secrecy
Greater openness could protect patients
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
For womb the bell tolls
We know what sex is when men want something from women
Against constitutional obscurantism
Sorry, Parliament is sovereign
I wanna be black
The perils of self-identification
The big turn off
Declining audiences is a big problem for journalism
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
