James Tooley
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Special report: The Buckingham University coup
The campaign to oust James Tooley culminates today
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
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Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
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La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal