Students
Learning difficulties: The University of Bliss, by Julian Stannard, reviewed
The bureaucrats have taken over, treating both academics and students as administrative nuisances in a searing satire on university life
Disgusted of academia: a university lecturer bewails his lot
The anonymous professor rails against politicians, administrators, colleagues and students who consistently fall short of his ethical and intellectual standards
My message for Columbia’s protesting students
There are several frustrating things about American college campuses, just one of which is the sheer volume of column inches…
Aristotle’s advice for young protestors
In his Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle (384-322 bc) sets about identifying the various headings under which you can be persuasive…
How universities raised a generation of activists
It was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the UK. In Oxford, tents have been…
In defence of drunken freshers’ weeks
Students need a drunken freshers’ week
A study of isolation: The Late Americans, by Brandon Taylor, reviewed
A group of students in Iowa City meet in bars and seminar rooms, but, separated by class, race and wealth, their connection is only fleeting
Have we hit peak graduate?
The Tory party has turned sharply against the idea of ever larger numbers going to university. The reasons for this…
The trans debate could cost this Cambridge porter his job
This is a story about a man called Kevin Price, who was until last week a councillor and who is,…
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives by building up immunity
My charter of fundamental rights
I was chatting to a young medical student, a very bright chap from West Africa, who was nonetheless perplexed by…
My encounter with the self-righteous cry-bullies of Cambridge
There’s a Tracey Ullman comedy sketch about the extreme and ugly form of political correctness afflicting the youth. It’s set…
High life
When the Germans smuggled arguably the world’s most evil man into Russia 100 years ago, they did not imagine the…
Generation Snowflake: how we train our kids to be censorious cry-babies
We’re training our children to be thin-skinned, censorious and belligerently entitled
There were no safe spaces at the dawn of democracy
Brilliant Oxford undergraduates argue that it is right to prevent us saying things they object to, because speech they do…
Dull hipsters in broad daylight – why I’m done with today’s dance music
At 19, I dropped out of university to pursue a career as a rave promoter. I went into business with…
My Brighton’s gone all Brideshead
My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril
Twenty things I will ban when I am elected your Dictator For Life in 2016
Things I am going to ban when, by popular acclaim, I am elected your Dictator For Life in 2016.…
Why 'safe' is Dot Wordsworth's word of the year
‘Makes me feel sick,’ said my husband, referring not to the third mince pie of the morning (in Advent, supposedly…
Barometer
The death of Diesel The Volkswagen scandal has brought into question the future of the diesel engine. A century ago…
The contagious madness of the new PC
Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed
For me and an increasing number of young people, each abortion is a death
Young people are becoming more pro-life
Dear Mary: How can I stop friends calling without warning?
Q. I have moved from London to the centre of a historic market town, now becoming famous as a foodie…
Why tomorrow’s parents won’t want their children to go to university
Why being a graduate is about to lose its prestige
