Where are all the teachers going?
British education is in a sorry state
Rishi gets an F
There’s no point in teaching uninterested students maths
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
