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
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
Blue de grâce?
The next election could spell doom for the Conservative Party
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books