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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato