Pilgrimage
A paean to Spain and Italy during troubled times
On the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage I saw the delights of the countries most cruelly ransacked by Coronavirus
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape