Society

You thought starting university was meant to be fun? Think again. A new league table, published in time for freshers’ week 2016, ranks universities on the basis of their local crime rate. The Complete University Guide has published the results, alongside a guide to ‘sexism on campus’, which gives students tips on how to scope out their university’s attitude to sexism and sexual harassment. But as the survey points out, official data for crime specifically against students is not available, so these figures are chosen because they relate to crimes ‘most likely to affect students’. The growing panic about sexual violence on campus is based on various reports published by the National Union

The late Sir Keith Joseph once gave a speech in which he said that the government was trying to ‘Bennboozle’ the country. You were asked to submit coinages inspired by today’s politicians, supplying full dictionary definitions and illustrative examples of their use. As is often the case with this sort of competition, many of you were thinking along similar, albeit entertaining lines. Charles Curran, Barry Baldwin and R.M. Goddard all coined harmanise though with varying definitions, and kendalliance and corbynate also cropped up several times. I was tickled by Basil Ransome-Davies’s faragiste (a chancer or failed opportunist, one who does not live up to his own publicity); D.A. Prince’s decameron

These are the latest appointments to Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet: Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow BIS Angela Eagle MP This tells us two things about Corbyn. One is that he is loyal to his friends. He and McDonnell have worked together for years, with Corbyn focusing on foreign policy while his friend stuck to economic policy. McDonnell wanted to be Shadow Chancellor, even though Angela Eagle clearly also fancied the job – and was a more credible candidate. Corbyn’s friend won. The second thing is that Corbyn is clearly keen to push the party as far left as quickly as

Jeremy Corbyn’s momentous victory in the Labour leadership contest is going to have a dramatic effect on British politics. In this View from 22 podcast special, James Forsyth, Isabel Hardman and I discuss what Corbyn’s victory means for British politics and the Labour party, as well as what we can expect to happen over the next few days. We also look at Tom Watson’s victory in the deputy leadership contest and how he will work with the new leader. You can subscribe to the View from 22 through iTunes and have it delivered to your computer every week, or you can use the player below:

Ok, so first things first. Jeremy Clarke didn’t fall overboard after all. He did, though, dance all night every night (almost), have everyone in stitches and host a rip-roaring High Life vs Low Life pub quiz. He even wore a fez with unexpected aplomb. Taki forwent the delights of his own High Life to join ours. He was exceedingly generous to his dining companions with his wine choices, and had us enthralled with his insider tales of Spectator days gone by and libel actions lost (mainly) and won (occasionally). And as for Martin Vander Weyer, well, he simply charmed the pants off everyone, not only with his self-deprecating wit and