Academia
Exhausting, divisive and irrational
Academia must undo the excesses of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
The myth of academic meritocracy
An awful lot of talent and experience is about to be wasted
Against sacrificing academic excellence
Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge
The future is bright for academic freedom
New threats to speech inquiry could inspire an unlikely consensus around openness
The renegade progressives
Has the University and College Union discovered freedom of speech?
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
Burn the book!
In which activists protest against the publication of a book they know little about
To the contrary, Mary
On gender, some of us are neither bigots nor confused
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
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?
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
