Simon Fanshawe
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Trans activist’s car crash interview
Repeating “no debate” for years has left these organisations unable to answer questions
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Exhausting, divisive and irrational
Academia must undo the excesses of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang