Academia
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 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
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Invalid email address
We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
