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January 2025

From Scholar to Consumer — A Brief History of Student Identity
What it means to be a student has changed over time.
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Education is the new political faultline
In many countries, it is now education and not social class that most accurately predicts how people will vote in elections.
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Hamas’s crimes against women must not be erased
When Israeli women were abused and taken hostage, most ‘feminist’ NGOs fell silent.
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Donald Trump, feminist icon?
Cast your mind back eight years.
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Academic freedom can't exist alongside DEI
Universities that prioritise 'inclusion' will never defend free speech
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Free speech is still in peril on campus
Labour’s watered-down Freedom of Speech Act will do little to tackle the scourge of cancel culture.
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Stop exploiting girls
Children should not be making propaganda for the Welsh Refugee Council
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The demise of the Royal Society of Literature
The tenth anniversary of the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo journalists reminds us that the literary establishment has long been equivocal when it comes to…
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The grooming-gang scandal is a stain on elite feminism
The #MeToo movement had nothing to say for the working-class girls who were systematically abused.
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Bridget Phillipson is vandalising education
Labour wants to indoctrinate kids with identitarian dogma.
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Wanted: a new generation of TV mavericks
Repeats, risk aversion and wokeness stifle the small screen, while the working classes are ignored
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