Artillery Row
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
Beware of education technology
The Lexile Scale is alchemy, not science
The problem with “lies and misinformation”
The charge of “misinformation” can be pure misdirection
The ingratitude of academia
The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent should celebrate their historic donors, not castigate them
Kemi’s Achilles’ heel
Her ego leads her to overvalue her talents and ignore her mistakes
Most oppressed people ever
Irish neutrality denialism is just the latest way to remain downtrodden
Defund the tone police
The tutting and muttering of Tory wets should be ignored
Marble arch
The Marbles bind us to Europe; losing them won’t make us more European
Justin Trudeau has been an embarrassing failure
He leaves Canada poorer, weaker and more divided
We need higher standards for academic writing
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties