Humanities
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
