Cancel Culture
With free speech, practise what you preach
How one Edinburgh student was censored by the student newspaper promoting free speech
Are we entering an age of post-humourism?
Just when we need it more and ever, society’s sense of humour appears to be in terminal decline
Trick nor Treat: the hounding of Halloween
Dressing up for Halloween has been cancelled by the culture police
Reflections of a scientific humanist
Michael Shermer’s new book is a collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Problematic
If someone identifies something you’ve said as problematic, they mean you are the problem
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
