Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
A clinical note on Trump Derangement Syndrome
Advice on how to avoid and manage the condition
The cant of Old Canterbury
Invoking art, history, and faith is no substitute for facing the realities of mass migration
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms