Cecil Rhodes
All Rhodes lead to ruin
Who was Cecil Rhodes, really?
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
Let’s not lose our heads over Rhodes
Can a man loyal to his Oxford college really be all bad?
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
