Cambridge
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?
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
