Universities
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
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
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
