Students
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Why grads are mad
Dissatisfaction is hardly surprising when young people pay more and more for degrees that are worth less and less
Let the code take the academic load
AI has already become a central part of the student experience
Britain has gone uni tunes
There is no defence for the expansion of the university system
The grads aren’t alright
Jobless and jaded, it’s no wonder grads are turning to the extremes for answers
Oxford on the spectrum
Why do so many bright undergraduates claim to be “neurodiverse”
Academic freedom will take individual courage
Students and academics have the responsibility to speak their minds
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?