Black’s History Week
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
