Library
Should new buildings make Cambridge better or worse?
Our alternative is much more popular than Christ’s College’s new proposed library
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Most Read
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile