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
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
Free to make bad decisions
Surrogacy bans set sexist restrictions on women’s bodies
Cross wires
For Britain it’s sovereignty, for the EU it’s a niggle around sausages
The best there is
Frankie Dettori’s unmatched skill, underestimated bravery and unprecedented love for the horses
Courts shouldn’t ban clinical treatments
This is a win for common sense, not the trans lobby
City of pricks
London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets
Pressure baby
If anyone is going to be over-cautious about vaccines, it’s pregnant women
The House mirror
Sir David Amess showed MPs what they should be