Diversity
I regret to inform you …
An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like
Death by degrees
The dream of the university is being killed by greed, dogma and bureaucracy
Turn to page two for kink and sex toys
Schools are using teaching material provided by opaque consultancies pushing fringe views on sex and race
The comedy of inclusive disrespect
Laughter can unite us
It’s no kind of night life
Why does Britain turn into a pumpkin around 6pm?
Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
The BBC can’t fix its class problems with quotas
The Corporation’s diversity obsession is the problem, not the solution
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Diversity north of Dundee
A Highlands culture war
Sheer snobbery
Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders