Features
Why the liberal hawks rule the roost
Get ready for the next idiot crusade
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
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
I regret to inform you …
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
The great international student scandal
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
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
Deconstructing decolonisation
At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate
Who will look after the kids?
Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
Trying to get everyone to agree is a wild goose chase
On the lonely worship and solemn rituals of the wildfowler
Some wars are just
A new film of a classic First World War novel focuses attention on the pacifism of the German elite that denies Ukraine the means of liberation