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Depoliticising the academy
How universities can comply with the final guidance issued by the Office for Students
Podcasters: do as I say, not as I do
Sometimes the best advice is simply not to go on a podcast
The market needs a rethink
What do the next generation of buyers actually want?
That Kemi reshuffle in full
The new Conservative frontbench is almost as full of talent as the last
Politicians have patronised the public for decades
Successive governments have failed to accept that their ideas are not just unpopular but wrong
The underground tobacco trade is thriving in Britain
Government measures have pushed smokers towards cheaper alternatives
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Why we have no new ideas
We appear to have reasoned our way into an intellectual dead end
It is right to question psychiatry
A new book makes a brave attempt to confront the abuses of psychiatric treatment
The damaging myth of the “martial races”
An Imperial hangover has caused the elite romanticisation of Afghan migrants
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting