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A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Are we still talking to the EU?
Government spin is mixing the Brexit divorce agreement with the trade deal
You’ll get tired of the Not Talking
What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
The divisiveness of Five Pillars
The UK’s chief website for British Muslim news sows more division than unity
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
In defence of knowledge
Richard Ovenden’s new book is a passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge expressed through literature
Eighth Blackbird and Navarra String Quartet
I’m not giving up trying to persuade younger people to listen to new composers
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
