Universities
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
Free speechers are missing the point
The newly announced Higher Education Bill won’t be the great champion of free speech that people think it will be
Why is Further Education still neglected?
The public expects more Government action on vocational options, says the Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Banned from researching trans
Perceived criticism of trans orthodoxy was too much for one university
Are UK dons hopelessly naive on China?
Beijing’s growing influence means hard choices are going to get harder for the Government
You had to be there
Riotous good fun for someone in No 10
With free speech, practise what you preach
How one Edinburgh student was censored by the student newspaper promoting free speech
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
