Caroline McWilliams
Caroline McWilliams is conducting a PhD at the University of St Andrews, researching informal diplomacy, upper class women and the British press in the inter-war years.
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project