Alex Story
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard