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
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
