Edinburgh University
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order