We drastically undervalue universities
We overestimate graduate regret, and underestimate the economic value of higher education
Stop the fight!
Our survey suggests most people don’t even know what the culture war is
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling