Gold Standard
Fifty years of easy money
Having gold as an anchor may not be perfect, but it does prevent the enormous expansion of public debt
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case