Prof. James Chalmers
Prof. James Chalmers was appointed to the Regius Chair of Law in 2012, and is currently REF Champion for the School of Law. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Follow him at @ProfChalmers
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?