Higher Education
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
The decline of Durham
The collegiate system is an essential virtue of Durham University and should not be abandoned
Why grads are mad
Dissatisfaction is hardly surprising when young people pay more and more for degrees that are worth less and less
Managerialism is a threat to universities
New reforms could disempower individuals in the face of institutions
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
No word should be inherently unsayable
Context matters — whatever the language police might say
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel