Features
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
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
Odesa: The Battle for a City’s Soul
Putin’s war has only strengthened the Ukrainian identity of a port where many have turned against their own Russian language and want to tear down Moscow’s imperial monuments
How the Bank broke the Government
By letting a rickety asset class grow like topsy, the Bank of England created the crisis blamed on the mini-budget
