Manchester University
Are UK dons hopelessly naive on China?
Beijing’s growing influence means hard choices are going to get harder for the Government
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
