The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
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
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
