Cardinal Newman
The perils of a young academic
Students must take on academic groupthink
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it