Research Excellence Framework
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
