Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
The hypocrisy of The Northern Ireland Office
They would never do to Scotland what they’ve just done to Ulster
Crowned heads and brass hats
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs
Rules of enragement
At its best Conflicted reminds us of the central importance of meaningful debate
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
Modernising the Royal Family
David Starkey talks to Graham Stewart about the crown’s delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific
Not exactly untriggered
Claudia Savage-Gore on the dinner party minefield of Everyone’s Invited
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
A Clockwork Jihadi
Usman Khan was supposed to be a rehabilitation success story. But Roland Elliott Brown believes the tale of his failed de-radicalisation bears uncomfortable parallels with Anthony Burgess’s infamous 20th century dystopia A Clockwork Orange