University of Edinburgh
With free speech, practise what you preach
How one Edinburgh student was censored by the student newspaper promoting free speech
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions