William Gibson
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the co-editor of The Lantern of History: Essays in Honour of Jeremy Black (Old Stables Press, 2020).
How to Climb the Academic Pole
Ambitious young academics see the lecture hall and research laboratory as a shackle
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom