Baroness Amanda Spielman
Baroness Spielman was Chief Inspector of Ofsted from 2017 to 2023. She tweets at @amanda_spielman.
The danger of civil service overreach
How can working within the law be in breach of the Civil Service Code?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
