Scholarship
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
