Freedom of Speech: What the new legislation means for universities, University of Derby, 19 May 2023
The best books on how to recognise the therapeutic turn in education, Shepherd.com, 23 January 2023
How did universities become so toxic? An interview with me about AFAF, in the Sunday Telegraph, 12 December 2021
Five ways to tell if your school is making a therapeutic turn, Independent Schools Magazine, October 2021
Restoring the real student voice – a paper for an Higher Education Policy Institute publication – was well reported in the press including this piece in the Telegraph, 5 August 2021
Academic Freedom can’t be legislated into existence, Times Higher Education, 16 February 2021
Post-Pandemic is the time to ask what teaching means in HE, University World News, 6 February 2021
How to defend free speech in universities, AFAF Blog, 14 January 2021
Remember Samuel Paty, AFAF Blog, 10 January 2021
#JeSuisSamuel, AFAF Blog, 20 October 2020
Why we need The Free Speech Union, AFAF Blog, 26 February 2020
Rise up for academic freedom, AFAF Blog, 31 January 2020
First, give no offence, Spiked, 31 October 2019
Why can’t every young person go to university?, teachwire, 25 October 2019
Vacuous value statements miss the point of higher education, Times Higher Education, 19 May 2018
Reality Check: Universities and free speech, (with Bryn Harris) Times Higher Education, 28 October 2018
The real reason why university degrees are getting easier, Spiked, 27 June 2018
The EU won’t save academic freedom, Spiked, 10 May 2018
Why free speech and open debate are essential in universities, University of Derby Blog, 22 February 2018
Debating the Skills Revolution, Spiked, 9 February 2018
There’s no Dennis without the menace! Spiked, 4 January 2018
Three cheers for Lindsay Shepherd, Spiked, 23 November 2017
Louise Richardson: a free-speech hero, Spiked, 7 September 2017
In defence of unwise speech, Spiked, 30 August 2017
Student contracts will sign away trust, Spiked, 27 July 2017
How ‘learning styles’ undermine education, Spiked, 16 March 2017
Seven ways education needs to change in 2017, The Conversation, 4 January 2017
After Brexit snowflake professors need to grow up, Spiked, 12 December 2016
The academics vs the bureaucracy, Spiked, 26 September 2016
The university must be an unsafe space for ideas, University Business, 20 September 2016
As they compete to provide the best student experience universities mustn’t forget the academic one too, The Conversation, 28 July 2015
Philosophy for children isn’t real philosophy, Spiked, 16 July 2015
Finland is throwing away everything that made its schools the best in the world, The Conversation, 31 March 2015
Even extremists have a right to free speech on campus, The Conversation, 26 November 2014
Why important education research often gets ignored, The Conversation, 16 October 2014
On the freedom to sigh, Spiked, 23 September 2014
The 50 great books on education, The Conversation, 31 March 2014
Can an Islamic education produce critical thinkers? The Conversation, 13 February 2014
Can kids do Kant? The Conversation, 3 February 2014
Stop policing the university, Spiked, 1 November 2012
Academic freedom means free speech and no “buts”, The Free Society, 4 March 2008