A floundering academic culture
UCU’s marking boycott is a lesson in hypocrisy
London’s got an eating disorder
Food, frustration and dependence amid decline
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
Don’t ask WhatsApp
Millions of messages, and sick of it
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
