STEP INSIDE the dining hall of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and within its cool, wood-panelled walls are memorials to great scholars of Caius and their work.
TopBritons don’t want new prisons. They also don’t want old ones to close
Violent crime in England and Wales peaked in 1995 according to the British Crime Survey, the best guide to the true level of offending. But the adult prison population has risen.
TopA guide to Britain’s cost-of-living crunch
THE SIGNS are there. Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, a discount supermarket, reports that his customers are switching towards frozen food, as a way to reduce waste, and buying fewer items as they try to manage their cash.
TopWhy Boris bashes the archbishop
ARGUMENTS BETWEEN the government of the day and the Archbishop of Canterbury have a long, bloody pedigree.
TopThe carbon market drives land sales in Scotland
WHEN PRINCE ALBERT purchased the 20,000-hectare (50,000-acre) Balmoral estate in 1852, he did so for his family and for the views, the grouse and the deer. Owners of estates in the Scottish Highlands have conventionally had similar motives.
TopBritish academics are seeing their retirement benefits cut
MANY ACADEMIC fights involve hostile questions at conferences and cutting footnotes. But a dispute over pensions has sent scholars to the picket lines.
TopThe classification of films is changing
“FUCKING” IS NOT what it used to be. Where once the mere presence of a “fuck” would be enough to merit a “15” rating in a film, and an “18” if said often enough, today the guidelines of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) have softened.
TopSir Keir Starmer’s transformation of the Labour Party
THREE YEARS AGO Momentum seemed to be riding high. The left-wing activist group had been formed to support Jeremy Corbyn, the radical leader of the Labour Party.
TopA Cambridge college reflects on the controversy over Ronald Fisher
STEP INSIDE the dining hall of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and within its cool, wood-panelled walls are memorials to great scholars of Caius and their work.
TopBritons don’t want new prisons. They also don’t want old ones to close
Violent crime in England and Wales peaked in 1995 according to the British Crime Survey, the best guide to the true level of offending. But the adult prison population has risen.
TopA guide to Britain’s cost-of-living crunch
THE SIGNS are there. Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, a discount supermarket, reports that his customers are switching towards frozen food, as a way to reduce waste, and buying fewer items as they try to manage their cash.
TopWhy Boris bashes the archbishop
ARGUMENTS BETWEEN the government of the day and the Archbishop of Canterbury have a long, bloody pedigree.
TopThe carbon market drives land sales in Scotland
WHEN PRINCE ALBERT purchased the 20,000-hectare (50,000-acre) Balmoral estate in 1852, he did so for his family and for the views, the grouse and the deer. Owners of estates in the Scottish Highlands have conventionally had similar motives.
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TopBritish academics are seeing their retirement benefits cut
MANY ACADEMIC fights involve hostile questions at conferences and cutting footnotes. But a dispute over pensions has sent scholars to the picket lines.
TopThe classification of films is changing
“FUCKING” IS NOT what it used to be. Where once the mere presence of a “fuck” would be enough to merit a “15” rating in a film, and an “18” if said often enough, today the guidelines of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) have softened.
TopSir Keir Starmer’s transformation of the Labour Party
THREE YEARS AGO Momentum seemed to be riding high. The left-wing activist group had been formed to support Jeremy Corbyn, the radical leader of the Labour Party.