Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The costs of war
Providing military assistance to Ukraine may be the right thing to do, but it’s not cheap
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
