Land
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP