Academica
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Survivors of male violence need single-sex spaces
Single-sex spaces and services are essential to the dignity and safety of female victims of male violence
Carr’s sound, satisfying, and solid creations
A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Why compensate the families of terrorists?
It would be immoral as well as irresponsible
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future