Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss declining scholarly standards, the state of peer review and the sycophantic treatment of subpar work.
Challenge the consensus. Access rigorous analysis.
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Why are our universities in decline?
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
