Universities in Crisis
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
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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
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers