Borat bores us
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film is a flop
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Covidfefe: Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis won’t decide the election
The President’s illness could actually help him
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Titled and entitled: Meghan and Harry humiliate themselves yet again
The Sussexes are yet to grasp that no one cares for their view on the upcoming US presidential election
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Met with disappointment: a quiet season for postmodern New York
Manhattan’s cultural landscape faces more tough times ahead with the cancellation of the Met’s 2020/2021 season
A Ruthless Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg’s legacy will now be weaponised by the woke for November’s elections
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
