Academic Freedom
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
Being “anti-woke” as a protected philosophical belief
How can we protect free speech in professional environments
Burn the book!
In which activists protest against the publication of a book they know little about
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Why UCL are shutting the door on Stonewall
The university is taking a stand against an organisation that has lost its way
Failing their own
The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
“Watch me take a knife to your throat”
The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
