Cancel Culture
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Cancellation of a Brazilian artist
Dissenting opinions on transgenderism can inspire attempts to erase careers
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
