All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
