The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
