Edinburgh University
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
