Universities
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
The perils of a young academic
Students must take on academic groupthink
The subversion of Athena Swan
How trans activists turn public funding to push their agenda
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
An alternative to higher ed
We need more paths for young people
The myth of liberal neutrality
The culture war in our universities is sweeping away cherished illusions
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Deals at any cost
Mauritius and Brussels have seen us coming
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Justin Trudeau has been an embarrassing failure
He leaves Canada poorer, weaker and more divided
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
