Oxford
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
A magnificent update — for good and ill
Only one with a slightly deranged confidence could ever have attempted it
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
A taste of the times
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is inspired by an old menu
The complacence of environmentalist urbanism
Increase access, yes, but don’t restrict movement
The article Cherwell killed
Higher education must stop excluding disagreement
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
