Neil Thin
Neil Thin works at the University of Edinburgh. He tweets at @NeilThin
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London