University Challenged
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Funding? Check your EDI policies
Rather than the merits of the research itself, it now matters more who is doing it
Having one’s head examined
To be Master of an Oxbridge college was once the most prized sinecure in Britain
Too much of a good thing?
The administrative class in UK higher education is bloated, overpaid and arrogant
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
Charter for Oxbridge cheats
Since digitising all interviews, both universities are rife with reports of abuses
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
How to travel in Europe
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
