What has gone wrong in British higher education?
From perverse incentives and failing financial models to the declining focus on teaching and the student experience, Jeremy Black explores what’s gone wrong at British universities.
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Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
