Matt Kilcoyne
Matt Kilcoyne is Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Institute. @MRJKilcoyne
Where are all these Empire-loving teachers?
Revolting children are the product of a sixty year old progressive education system
How a twenty-year-old report started the culture wars
The Parekh report argued that ‘Britishness’ as previously understood was now defunct
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
The life and loves of John Nash
Andy Friend provides a readable account of Nash’s life, but omits important detail about how the artist made others feel
Pin the tail on the lockdown donkey
We are regularly told that Britain is on the brink of crises, but where is the evidence to support this?
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Can British manufacturing recover?
Will Covid lead to a rebalancing of the British economy or will normal service resume? Graham Stewart discusses with John Mills
Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day
The never-ending inquiries into the murder of Pat Finucane
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has announced further reviews to appease the incoming Biden administration