Universities
The crisis in foreign language studies
How the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards
Managerialism is a threat to universities
New reforms could disempower individuals in the face of institutions
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
Why British universities are bowing to Beijing
Commercial interests appear to be compromising academic freedom
Let the code take the academic load
AI has already become a central part of the student experience
Leeds University is abandoning intellectual independence
Leeds has elevated a contested body of thought to an institutional doctrine
Why the French do higher education better
Unlike in Britain, students are treated as the adults that they are
Worst practices for academic freedom
Academics are still facing pressure to censor themselves
Bye bye, EDI?
King’s College London drops “diversity statement” requirement after free speech concerns
Britain has gone uni tunes
There is no defence for the expansion of the university system
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself