Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
