Black Lives Matter
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
The National Trussed
The National Trust fails to re-educate its members, and a children’s home lectures us on white privilege
The sound of silence
View from Oxford: a letter to the Vice-Chancellor
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Shop these shoppers!
Saintly Sainsburys vs Waitrose’s white supremacists
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
Is wokery to be added to our school curriculums?
The issues of 2020 should not be allowed to dominate the curriculum
Ofcom is a menace to our freedom of speech
It is high time we liberated our airwaves
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
