Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
A quiet revolution
Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
Beating a dead narrative
Yet another teacher memoir abuses more clichés
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
May letters
We are in grave danger of losing our musical marbles
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
