British Universities
More town, less gown
The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise
Universities are not counselling services
By expecting them to do everything, we forget their central purpose: education
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
Why UCL are shutting the door on Stonewall
The university is taking a stand against an organisation that has lost its way
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
Battle of the leftists
Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?
A sea of staring eyes
Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning
Bollocks to Babel
The Erasmus scheme is a political project not designed to work well academically
The vanishing university
From Oxford to Edinburgh, Bristol to Liverpool, the story is the same: online interaction is here to stay
Are British universities unwittingly arming China?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion talk to Radomir Tylecote about how British universities are cooperating with organisations linked to the Chinese military
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
