Features
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The EV delusion
Huge economic and infrastructure challenges must be overcome if electric vehicles are to become anything more than toys for middle class drivers
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
For decency’s sake, let’s quit Strasbourg
The European Convention of Human Rights is now misinterpreted, misapplied and debases the currency of humanism
UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs
Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long
The Unnatural Herstory Museum
There is no real reason for museums to segregate what was hers and his
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?