Ideology
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
The kids are alright
In defence of the British state school pupil
Corrosive curation
Against the politicisation of museums
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
