British Summer
A very superior Season
Today’s Season may be more democratic and international than the old, but those in the know still cherish the hot tickets that guarantee exclusivity
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover