Cancel Culture
Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?
Yesterday’s censors are today’s free speech champions
Playing nice hasn’t worked
Even when I keep quiet about being cancelled, the censors don’t invite me back
Burn the book!
In which activists protest against the publication of a book they know little about
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
Farewell to the counterculture
Róisín Murphy’s cancellation is a tale of poachers turned ideological gamekeepers
A nation of curtain twitchers
Britain is becoming pettier, nastier and more tedious
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
