Cambridge
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
How to deface a national treasure
Once lauded as one of the most charming historic cities in England, Cambridge is being ruined by architectural monstrosities and ill-thought-out traffic schemes
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
How do we perceive the world?
This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
