Issue: March 2024
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
