Higher Education
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Parents, teach your children about supply and demand
Too often, young people are turkeys voting for Christmas
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
Reformed towns
The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
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How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
