Academia
Why ARC mattered
It offered the chance for serious reflection in rewarding company
The problem of race positionality and research funding
The racial identity of a researcher should not affect their progress in higher education
High priests of academia
The public are reading academic output, and they don’t like what they see
We need higher standards for academic writing
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Most Read
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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?