Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Compulsory voting — the solution to our gerontocratic crisis?
Young people have been written out of British politics: it’s time to let them back in
Dead men wave no flags
UK must not allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine
The charity-industrial complex strikes again
Why is the government paying for the privilege of being prosecuted by lefty lobbyists?
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
