Academia
What I learned from failing my PhD
Intellectual life shouldn’t be a combat sport
What are your links to slavery?
Some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations
Murders for April
Dark academia and classic hollywood horror
The conversion of Paul
The political journey of Paul Johnson, who renounced his socialist ideals to become a standard-bearer of the Right
A classic case of missing the point
A misguided campaign to decolonise the Univerity of London’s Classics curriculum
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
A defence of capitalism
Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
