Will give a series of talks over three days at anonymous Lancashire secondary school. … Read the rest

Parents want them because they have better discipline.… Read the rest

Unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy.… Read the rest

The harder Blair’s arguments are looked at, the more curious they seem.… Read the rest

You can read Othello in two of three ways: ‘Marxist, feminist, race’. Zzzzz.… Read the rest

Simply a theory that suggests there is more than one way of looking at the world. Ah.… Read the rest

Mill quoted Bentham’s opinion that pushpin was as good as poetry – as evidence of his short-sightedness. … Read the rest

Military common sense has been abandoned in favour of the brutal, politically driven shortcut.… Read the rest

Taxi drivers will be responsible for passengers dressed ‘inappropriately’.… Read the rest

Students training to be imams at London college cite doctrines which describe nonMuslims as ‘filth’.… Read the rest

‘If a woman, even a Muslim woman, is naked and you have no way of covering her up, it is legitimate to kill her.’… Read the rest

Brain cannot see itself fooling itself, so the only way to avoid bias is to avoid situations that produce it. … Read the rest

Draws on Epicurus, Seneca, Kant, Mill.… Read the rest

Virus could account for 75% of China’s missing women, less than 20% of India’s.… Read the rest

Ha ha, wrong station, hee hee, they met at a pub, nyah nyah, Nick Cohen and Francis Wheen.… Read the rest

‘The Chancellor has long attempted to claim the giant of the Scottish Enlightenment for Labour.’… Read the rest

Proposals in government bill could give ‘faith groups’ a much bigger role in running of schools. … Read the rest

They risk the Carl Sagan effect, but they can make knowledge more widely available.… Read the rest

A singular, wised-up, cant-free voice that is pure intelligence at play.… Read the rest

A society whose best students have a thin understanding of its past is a society in trouble.… Read the rest