Priyamvada Gopal
Professor Gopal has the Varsity blues
Fighting antisemitism is not a “conflict of interest”
Stop this fascist gaslighting
Without white progressives like me to supervise them, ethnic minorities are helpless and easily exploited
Post-colonial bad jokes
The whole history of the West is — to confound the simplicities of the woke — one gigantic act of “cultural appropriation”
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Drill in the dock
It can be legitimate to use music as evidence in criminal trials
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected