Article published in Country Squire Magazine What you need to know before you pack your son or daughter off to university this autumn Ripples of laughter could be heard from the Senior Common Room where undergraduates dressed in ‘I am a feminist’ hoodies wrestled on the sofas....
Published in Country Squire Magazine What is it like being a Eurosceptic at a British university? The Common Room was full of snuff-coloured indefinite suits and strange phlegmatic noises coming from behind Broadsheets. Tonight it was Schools Dinner – the one occasion in the year when students...
The research on my latest fieldwork in Colombia where I worked with ex-hostages of the FARC is published in Language & Communication 69 (2019): 1-10 ...
Colombian families of former hostages turn to radio for justice I am sitting in the reception of the Marriott Hotel in Bogotá. I have come here to meet Herbin Hoyos. Herbin, one of the most well-known journalists in Colombia, ran a radio programme called Voces del...
In the UK barely a week goes by without an act of absurd censoriousness in response to something written on social media. Last week a devout Catholic and journalist, Caroline Farrow, was told to attend a police interview after being accused of using the wrong...
The Ideology of Failure - a book that discusses identity politics, the erosion of free speech and the culture of virtue-signalling PC authoritarianism at universities in the Anglosphere is very positively reviewed by The Burkean. 'What we have here is a highly original approach to the...
The Ideology of Failure - a book on political ideologies, the corruption of language and the freedom of speech - receives more positive reviews. Cambridge based philosopher of science, Gregory Bridgman, recommends the book 'to those who have experienced the often jarring experience of unintentionally...
Travels in Cultural Nihilism - a travelogue of political ideologies - is positively reviewed again, this time by free speech expert and political scientist, Dr Aspen Brinton: "These are political times. To write a political book now is to dive into a polarized, emotion-filled, loud,...
The higher education minister, Sam Gyimah, has spoken repeatedly about the danger of letting universities fuel an ideological monoculture. Certain views from identity politics to Brexit have become 'unacceptable' at universities, he said because they are not 'on trend'. That could be no more true...
Many level-headed people are concerned at how the freedom of speech is being suppressed and undermined by the no-platforming movement at British universities. St Chad's College, Durham has become the latest institution to stifle publicly the freedom of expression and punish those who question the...