Big Ben
Battle of the bells and the boutique hotel
Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover