Is charging VAT on private schools a vote loser?
Whether a policy is wise and whether it is unpopular are different questions
Bums on seats
What will the long delayed boundary review finally do?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
