Oxford
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
Oxford is fallen
What do they know of faith who only multi-faith spaces know?
University challenged
View from Oxford: this is about much more than a statue
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
