Universities in Crisis
The crisis in foreign language studies
How the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards
How AI is making us more stupid
There is no consensus about what constitutes AI abuse versus use
A dearth of qualified candidates for Cambridge Chancellor
How did we get here?
Too much of a good thing?
The administrative class in UK higher education is bloated, overpaid and arrogant
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
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
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans