Kathleen Stock
Cambridge in decline?
Censorious tendencies have not conquered the university yet
The meaninglessness of moderation
Compromise is not valuable in itself
Free speech lives in Oxford
Ox, Stock and 150 shouting protestors
Policing the marketplace of ideas
How woke pressure groups are subverting big tech
The second gender war
After a year of progress, “conversion therapy ban” law threatens to resurrect bad gender policy all over again
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
The hounding of a female academic
What this tells us about policing
Bullied
The persecution of Kathleen Stock is not about free speech
Welcome back to reality, feminists
Wokeness is less an intellectual position and more a form of wish-fulfilment
Witch hunt
Last week Cambridge University Student Union published a guide to “Spotting TERFS in the Field”
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
