Academia
My “debunked” views
A response to an attempted cancellation
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
Did women in academia cause wokeness?
More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
