Humanities
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
The art of science
The so-called “two cultures” are not in conflict but will always be interlinked
The purpose of the university
What will become of a society that continually prioritises efficiency over civilisation?
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
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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
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent