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
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The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
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Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
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Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
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A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)