Podcast
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
