The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
