Universities
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
How to meet the demands of the new electoral majority
We can balance politics and increase productivity
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
No university for young men
Higher education no longer offer a bright future
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
Dividing our way to equality
Equality legislation has enabled unfairness and division
Higher education: a diagnosis
We need to address the underlying causes of academic decline
A floundering academic culture
UCU’s marking boycott is a lesson in hypocrisy
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
