An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
Taking Stock
“Freedom of speech is alive and well at Oxford” — but for how much longer?
The perils of a young academic
Students must take on academic groupthink
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
