Research Excellence Framework
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
