Sir John Seeley
Fight things that really matter
We must not capitulate to self-indulgent and hypocritical student outrage over Cambridge’s Seeley Library
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
