Jonathan Porter
Jonathan Porter was formerly Deputy Head at Michaela Community School and now studies at the Davenant Institute. He can be found on Twitter at @JHC_Porter
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
