Universities
We drastically undervalue universities
We overestimate graduate regret, and underestimate the economic value of higher education
The bibliophobe barbarians
How to deal with the legacy of physical books in academic libraries?
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
The grads aren’t alright
Jobless and jaded, it’s no wonder grads are turning to the extremes for answers
Depoliticising the academy
How universities can comply with the final guidance issued by the Office for Students
Will universities accept academic freedom?
Job adverts still demonstrate a deep commitment to ideological biases
How AI is making us more stupid
There is no consensus about what constitutes AI abuse versus use
How to ruin a university
There is a managerial cancer afflicting the higher education sector
Funding? Check your EDI policies
Rather than the merits of the research itself, it now matters more who is doing it
In praise of the lecture
Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video
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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
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Reform is making a mistake on Iran
The party is throwing its weight behind an unpopular and perilous cause
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity