What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
