Ric Holden
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
