Academics can be cruel to dissenters from 'progressive' dogma, even more so when they're right. Dr Michael Rainsborough pays tribute to his late friend Dr David Martin Jones, who deserves to be much more widely read.
Michael Rainsborough watched Adolescence expecting to see stale, regime propaganda. In fact, he thinks it's a deeply subversive, vituperative satire of post-liberal Britain.
When Prof Michael Rainsborough was cancelled over a lecture series on free speech it came, as befits the hushed corridors of academia, like a velvet cosh to the back of the head. Read what he learned in his Stasi file.
Subservience is always a choice, never an inevitability – but it's a choice successive generations of British politicians have made, says Michael Rainsborough. When will the UK decide to stand on its own two feet?
Why is the West's strategy so stupid? Why do we always lose? Ukraine is just the latest ill-fated military intervention driven by simplistic liberal idealism, says Prof Michael Rainsborough. We need to kick the habit.
The West's moral, spiritual and political decay mirrors the post-totalitarianism of Eastern Europe, says Michael Rainsborough. The difference is today's authoritarianism wears a progressive mask.
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