Oxford
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Bippi Strangeways
Activist poet
My kitchen confessions
I wasn’t cut out for the life of a chef
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
Oxford on the spectrum
Why do so many bright undergraduates claim to be “neurodiverse”
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment