Oxford
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
How gown destroyed town
The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
