Academia
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
The student loan debate misses the real question
Degrees should be less essential but more valuable
Academia absent
The small-boats problem is ripe for research — why are academics staying away?
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
Mary Beard is wrong about Cambridge
The university prefers box-ticking mediocrity to excellence
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas