Cornelia van der Poll
Cornelia van der Poll is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Oxford.
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws