Oxford
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
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
Farewell to St Benet’s Hall
How a Catholic institution capitulated to the non-binary gods of diversity
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
The Critic Books Podcast: Edgware Road
A debut story of family mystery and intrigue — set between London, Oxford, and Karachi
Afternoon delights
Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
House divided
A view from Oxford: All is far from well at Christ Church
There’s always hope
Union hacks never die, they just go into corporate comms