For @thetimes Weekend Essay, @dfkodsi and I have written about the warping effects of academia's widespread indulgence of woke theorising -- taking in the efforts to sound the alarm on the part of @Docstockk, @byrne_a, @aytchellesse, @jdoyleDoyle1. Many of academia's political

If I dig up my Bluesky password am I going to have an aneurism

Recently, @johnmaier_ and I argued in @thetimes that academia is biased: it is subject to a systematic distortion of perception. The relevance of trans to this claim is that it is the clearest manifestation of this bias. It is an issue, in other words, on which the critics of

‘In any case, flippant reductionism is hardly the right tone to strike when presented with the information that at least 6,000 teenage girls – a large proportion of whom have comorbid mental health conditions like autism and ADHD – were given double mastectomies as a form of

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Fingers on buzzers — it’s the ultimate quizmasters’ quiz! https://t.co/Drb7NikS1b

Today is a perfect excuse (as if one were needed) to revisit David Lammy’s greatest television performance

Something I cherish about analytic philosophy is that no matter how famous you are or how profound your ideas sound, it's still your job to answer all the objections. I wish public promoters of philosophy held themselves to the same standard.

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Angela Rayner should not have resigned as deputy leader. There is no requirement that the deputy leader be in the Cabinet. Labour has previously had deputy leaders who sat on the backbenches.

Truly, truly mental

Gladwell’s career wouldn’t have been destroyed if he’d spoken out against the glaring unfairness, not to mention dangers, of allowing men to compete in women’s sport. He’d have faced loss of approval from the cultural elite and received activist blowback, and even that wouldn’t

I'm not going to add the throat-clearing "however" that people seem to feel necessary when they stand up for Glinner. It's nonsense. He doesn't say things the way I would, and vice versa. We're not the same people. We haven't had the same experiences. That is irrelevant. 5/5

.@johnmaier_: “The pearl clutching about Linehan is so clearly an expression of the same squeamish disposition that allowed trans activism a free pass in the first place that it’s striking these people can’t see it.” @HJoyceGender

Britain is now a total laughing stock - a country where we arrest the authors of light comedies and interrogate them about their tweets. It would be laughable it it wasn't so serious. - Graham Linehan on his arrest today 👇

Well I think this is what you call cut through. @Glinner on the front page of The Times 1/5

The arrest of @Glinner is a disgraceful episode on so many levels. I hope he understands that this authoritarian over-reach is not in any way representative of decent liberal values. He has my uncompromising support. Enough

Lots of people incapable of speaking about this Glinner debacle (or for that matter Lucy Connolly) without appending something about how much they personally dislike him. Well, we’re talking here about the abuse of state power, whether you like the guy is totally irrelevant.

today is the first day of the @mercatus Emerging Scholars Program, the new program i direct. we are lucky to have 6 fantastic scholars making up the inaugural cohort: @elsie_jang @HenryEOliver Patterson Beaman @olivertraldi @johnmaier_ @R_Sharfuddin_ https://t.co/ycl8Aqh49H

Kathleen @Docstockk brilliantly explains that passing all of Britain's problems through the increasingly deranged filter of the American online Right is not, in fact, helpful. https://t.co/DD2mNrcpMH

I wrote this about the most boring and destructive trend of our time: the politicisation of everything. We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life! https://t.co/rICYvWXkwm