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The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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unconquered by a
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Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Eric Snapper
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Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent