How to Climb the Academic Pole
Ambitious young academics see the lecture hall and research laboratory as a shackle
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Love’s labourers lost
Romeo finds himself overcome by a sense of utter hopelessness
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
Boris is no joke, he’s a way of life
Keep the Telegraph solvent, keep Boris in office
Guilty of Journalism
In defence of Glen Owen doing his job
Covid amnesty for everyone but the politicians
MPs made their bed, but that doesn’t mean we have to lie in it
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful