Cambridge
Should new buildings make Cambridge better or worse?
Our alternative is much more popular than Christ’s College’s new proposed library
Mary Beard is wrong about Cambridge
The university prefers box-ticking mediocrity to excellence
Choose your Chancellor
Your cut-out-and-keep guide to the candidates for Cambridge’s top job
A dearth of qualified candidates for Cambridge Chancellor
How did we get here?
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation