Modern Foreign Languages
The crisis in foreign language studies
How the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines