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More town, less gown
The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
Bye-bye Boris
Rob Hutton on the last days of the Emperor Boris
Borisdammerung
Boris sings one last sad song before he mounts his pyre
What Britain needs next
Whoever replaces Boris Johnson has to make radical change
Why Boris clung on
The Prime Minister knows his legacy is on the line
Number 10 needs a caretaker
But who’s up for the thankless task of cleaning up Boris’s mess?
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
Faith on trial
Christian beliefs have yet to receive protection under law
The many rooms of British law
Has British legislation become too complex to be understood?
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
