Bureaucracy
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Is Britain closed for business?
New development is being strangled by red tape
Centrist Dadocracy
Rory Stewart thinks only he can save the nation
A little less conversation
The UK is drowning in discourse
Nothing to declare
Against the boring tyranny of proceduralism
“No thinking, please, we’re British!”
Our politics needs more strategic intelligence
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Seasonal style
Picking the right outfit for summer socials
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
