Academia
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
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Medical science is oppressive
Illness and wellness are mere taxonomies of power
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
