English Degree
The purpose of the university
What will become of a society that continually prioritises efficiency over civilisation?
Abigail Lamb Festival Fodder
Disaster strikes at the literary festival
Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature
Is the English Lit degree killing love for literature?
Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities
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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 fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility