Middle class millennials in search of the good life

Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests

A leader of great personal qualities

We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize

We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly

How he at last lived up to his promise

Get ready for the next idiot crusade

Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa

An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like

With an ever-higher number of foreign postgraduates not even turning up for their courses, some universities are not selling an education, but a visa