Rhodes Statue
House divided
A view from Oxford: All is far from well at Christ Church
University challenged
View from Oxford: this is about much more than a statue
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
