Matt Ridley
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land