Cecil Rhodes
All Rhodes lead to ruin
Who was Cecil Rhodes, really?
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
Let’s not lose our heads over Rhodes
Can a man loyal to his Oxford college really be all bad?
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
