Gordon Beattie
Star Wars goes woke
Racist cats in racist hats, Star Wars goes woke and a quick guide to cancelling a conservative
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches