Academia
Mary Beard is wrong about Cambridge
The university prefers box-ticking mediocrity to excellence
Why the French do higher education better
Unlike in Britain, students are treated as the adults that they are
Worst practices for academic freedom
Academics are still facing pressure to censor themselves
Don’t fall for the Oxbridge Master’s
For all the hype, it can be of minor significance
Bye bye, EDI?
King’s College London drops “diversity statement” requirement after free speech concerns
The problem with “citation justice”
A seemingly noble ambition excessively politicises scholarship
Britain has gone uni tunes
There is no defence for the expansion of the university system
The pitfalls of peer review
The supposed gold standard for academic rigour can be nothing of the kind
Why we should check sources
We have to know if authors are being diligent with evidence
Cambridge University was right to honour Angela Davis
It has exposed its real values and standards
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations