Aid budget
Charity remains at home
In cutting international aid, Tory MPs delude themselves into believing the prime minister
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
