Universities
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
