research
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
EDI contra science
The misuse of “ethics” in academic research
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
