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Notes on an academic spat
This week on X (formerly Twitter), there was a notable dispute between the conservative journalist Charlotte Gill and British humanities academics. In a…
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James O’Brien and low liberalism
A review of How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien
Mar 24
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A retracted paper tells us something important about academia
Recently, scandal has struck the Frontiers in Psychology journal. Following the acceptance of the paper ‘Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate…
Mar 13
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February 2024
Lindsay Hoyle must resign
Occasionally, I take students on visits to parliaments. The Senedd (Welsh parliament) is wonderful, yet the history of the UK Houses of Parliament is…
Feb 23
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Thomas Prosser
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If Labour is elected, the sky probably won’t fall in
This week, the political scientist Matt Goodwin attacked the UK Labour Party, arguing that the party’s probable victory in this year’s election would…
Feb 21
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Welsh Labour isn’t working
February is a big month in Welsh politics. Following the resignation of First Minister Mark Drakeford, Vaughan Gething and Jeremy Miles will fight to be…
Feb 12
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January 2024
Christopher Rufo and the problem of anti-wokeness
A review of America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
Jan 22
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How the corporate-sociocultural alliance shaped our times
Recently, observers of Western political economies have debated corporate embrace of social justice ideology. A preferable term to the pejorative…
Jan 9
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The state of The Path Not Taken
Dear all, Happy New Year and I hope that you and yours are well. Over two years after the foundation of this Substack, I’m delighted with reaction to…
Jan 4
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December 2023
Evidence for low liberalism and why it has no conservative equivalent
Previously on this Substack, I have written about the growth of low liberalism, a non-elite and crude form of liberalism. Whilst such voters think…
Dec 22, 2023
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The crisis of scholar-activism
Activism has become central to academia; left-wing scholar-activism is prominent in fields which use qualitative methods and universities endorse…
Dec 18, 2023
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November 2023
What's driving social justice ideology? The US and UK compared
Increasingly, researchers have better data on social justice ideology (some call this ‘woke’, though I dislike the term). This week, the British…
Nov 13, 2023
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