Martin Stephen
Martin Stephen is the former High Master of St Paul’s School and Chair of Governors at an inner-city comprehensive.
You can’t ‘level up’ Oxbridge
It is high time we ally elite education, irrespective of background, with the service of the public good
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow