Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a senior civil servant and an amateur historian of endurance fell running.
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge