Swearing
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Why do we need a privacy elite?
The world has conformed to Silicon Valley’s way of doing business
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”