Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth

PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer

China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands

It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves

Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees

Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution

On the sad decline of the British university

Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP

A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism

Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling