A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
