Season
Dancing into Fall
Hannah Betts selects a fabulous, gloom-defying autumn wardrobe
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
