Strasbourg
For decency’s sake, let’s quit Strasbourg
The European Convention of Human Rights is now misinterpreted, misapplied and debases the currency of humanism
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
