Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
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The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper