Academia
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
History wars roll on
In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree
Medusa and toxic femininity
In reply to A Classicist’s response to ‘The Mirror of #MeToo’
Looking back at Medusa
Myths are more malleable than statues
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
A pigment of her imagination
The pitfalls of (not) being black in American academia
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Women can have short hair, too
Pseudo-progressives are resurrecting gender stereotypes
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
