His Dark Materials
Ref!
FA chairman cancelled, Anne Hathaway’s non-PC portrayal, and a dinosaur politician survives cancellation
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?