Interviews
Online Screening: the inconvenient truth
Far fewer applicants now find themselves in the cold corridors of medieval quads
Troubling Admissions
According to their own statistics, almost one in five Oxford students are disabled.
Charter for Oxbridge cheats
Since digitising all interviews, both universities are rife with reports of abuses
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Most Read
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle