Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Losing Truman
This ghost trail is filled with false starts and made-up assertions, but it ultimately leads us nowhere
AI will make our children stupid
We are creating a terrible learning environment for the young
Levelling the learners
The Curriculum and Assessment Review is a bundle of cliches with compromise at its core
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
A fine bromance
We have long since lost any real perspective on The Beatles
Against literary Anglophobia
Julian Barnes appears keen to deconstruct the nation that made him famous
The slow death of Wales
Of all the parts of the United Kingdom, it is the Principality which has declined the most
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are