Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a senior civil servant and an amateur historian of endurance fell running.
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality