To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates. The post It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings appeared first on Cherwell.| Cherwell
If you're still stuck in the “it's all kids dancing” mindset, you're slipping way behind the times…| One Man & His Blog
Clare Balding, back on the BBC this week for Celebrity Traitors, uncovered a long-hidden family scandal when she delved into her ancestry for Who Do You Think You Are?| Daily Mirror
British comic novelist Jilly Cooper has died earlier this week. Writer Philip Hensher is among the first to pay his respects. This was published in The Spectator where he offered a thoughtful description of her writings, noting that they fell … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
Remarkably, Churchill read all the newspapers he could lay his hands on—from The Times to the Daily Worker, the British version of which was later renamed the Morning Star. He would do this in bed of a morning after breakfasting off a tray. He often liked to discard sheets of read newspapers on the floor. This infuriated his valet Frank Sawyers, who made a show of disapproval as he picked up the sheets. The post Winston Churchill’s Favorite Newspapers appeared first on The Church...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
In this interview, I argue that how Trump’s Shock pans out will largely depend on whether Europe and China will act in concert or turn against one another. As for the UK, Trump has given Brexit a major boost. And here is another interview with Emily Jeshinsky of Unherd’s Undercurrents on the same subject: Trump’s […]| Yanis Varoufakis