Forests
Failing to see the woods for the trees
There is little wonder the Government is falling so dismally short of its tree-planting targets
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
