Ernest Shackleton
Buccaneer of the Antarctic
The heroic age of polar exploration ended with Shackleton’s death
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
