Benjamin Sharkey
Benjamin Sharkey is a doctoral candidate and tutor in history at the University of Oxford. He tweets at @SharkeyBenjamin
Take home education out of detention
You can spot the home educators. They’re the ones who can look adults in the eye
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
