Foreign Students
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
