@patrickjleman

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with a little bit of resilience. We all have to do it, to some extent, from time to time, and to […]

Eight years ago, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Clare Hall, Cambridge, Stefan Collini, found himself pondering “what are universities for?” It’s not entirely clear […]

Time was, you’d check in to a terrible B&B, commit to memory the labyrinthine system of keys, work out where to insert yourself in the […]

I love karaoke! And (a little too much information coming up) I perpetually have a kind of personal zeitgeist playlist in my head which changes […]

I suspect Boris Johnson thinks he’d make a good dictator. In the Kim Jung Un/Idi Amin mould, of course (although differentiation is important in these […]