Michael Hopkins
A magnificent gift for Oxford
The Schwarzman Centre offers stately new facilities for all the university’s humanities departments
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains