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Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
