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How to get ahead in academia

How to get ahead in academia

The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot

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University Challenged
“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”

“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”

Must we all be aligned with the values of Stonewall?

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Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

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What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

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Victoria Smith

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

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Pleasure and persuasion

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Norman Lebrecht

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The futility of right-wing cancel culture

Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong

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Time for change?

A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics

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Exile and exaltation

Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)

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Marriage and muscular liberalism

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The memory wars

Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history

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The screaming spires

Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom

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The dog that failed to bark

Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
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