Academic Freedom
Worst practices for academic freedom
Academics are still facing pressure to censor themselves
Bye bye, EDI?
King’s College London drops “diversity statement” requirement after free speech concerns
The problem with “citation justice”
A seemingly noble ambition excessively politicises scholarship
Will universities accept academic freedom?
Job adverts still demonstrate a deep commitment to ideological biases
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom? #2
Will censorship end or just change sides?
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
Academic freedom will take individual courage
Students and academics have the responsibility to speak their minds
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
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”?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh