Academia
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
What I learned from failing my PhD
Intellectual life shouldn’t be a combat sport
What are your links to slavery?
Some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations
Murders for April
Dark academia and classic hollywood horror
The conversion of Paul
The political journey of Paul Johnson, who renounced his socialist ideals to become a standard-bearer of the Right
A classic case of missing the point
A misguided campaign to decolonise the Univerity of London’s Classics curriculum
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
A defence of capitalism
Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief
The Conservatives should be put out of their misery
Why people love Farage
He is Britain’s only MP with “Rizz”
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
