Skills
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
Labour has not lived up to its promises on skills
Bridget Phillipson must change course to deliver the change that Britain needs
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy