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Celestria Parfit
Culture could not survive without such austere archivists
On the radar
A fresh telling of a largely forgotten slice of wartime history
The West’s Ukraine policy is no longer ethical
Conscription is a moral evil we should not support
In praise of constitutional flexibility
It was right to amend the Supreme Court’s decision on Gerry Adams
DegreeStoppers
Call DegreeStoppers now – if your tip leads to a conviction, you could receive a postgraduate diploma
The colourful world of English winemakers
Henry Jeffreys on the tyros who made English wine world class
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
The grim side of graduation
Prospects for today’s students look bleak
The battle is not the war
Free speech defenders should not celebrate prematurely
Icy glamour
Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?