Ending Britain’s childcare arms race
What is the end goal of extending childcare provision?
Fiddling as Rome burns
Don’t be neutral about Suella the firefighter
The true, the good and the beautiful
We have to redirect Western civilisation
Confected outrage doesn’t change the facts about the family
Why does British political debate often disregard children’s interests?
A failure of safeguarding
The government should act on transitioning in schools
Saying no to school transition
Social transition in schools is wrong, risky and unfair to children — and the government should ban it
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
