University Challenged
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The crisis in foreign language studies
How the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards
Online Screening: the inconvenient truth
Far fewer applicants now find themselves in the cold corridors of medieval quads
Let the code take the academic load
AI has already become a central part of the student experience
Is the Cambridge VC worth it?
The Chancellorship race was just a distraction from the real position of power in the university
The bibliophobe barbarians
How to deal with the legacy of physical books in academic libraries?
How AI is making us more stupid
There is no consensus about what constitutes AI abuse versus use
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define