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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Shabir Ahmed is a symptom
Deporting the grooming gang leader, while just, will not solve our problems
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
