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
Ofcom is a menace to our freedom of speech
It is high time we liberated our airwaves
Public spending and public health
Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous
Giving straight white men all the best jobs isn’t always good news
Why should we expect BBC lifer Tim Davie to end BBC bias or high pay?
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
All of this has happened before
Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
Chucking out time
Why are Ministers with private offices happy to deprive backbench MPs of staff?
A miserable specimen
The Natural History Museum seems to have lost faith in the ability of children to understand new concepts and facts
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition