Universities in Crisis
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
