Higher Education
What has gone wrong with our universities?
A warts and all look at British higher education
Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature
An alternative to higher ed
We need more paths for young people
More town, less gown
The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise
The rise of the panic masters
Why today’s graduates want to stay at university forever
Britain has been betrayed
Our country’s fortunes aren’t falling — they were pushed
Cognitive manoeuvres
The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology
The vanishing university
From Oxford to Edinburgh, Bristol to Liverpool, the story is the same: online interaction is here to stay
Free speechers are missing the point
The newly announced Higher Education Bill won’t be the great champion of free speech that people think it will be
The breakdown of higher education
A British-American professor explains how diversity ruined academia, and how to reform it
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
Superunintelligence
Have we witnessed the rise of ShappsGPT?
Britain must not overregulate AI
Staying competitive in the modern world depends on balancing its opportunities and its risks
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
