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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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy