Educational sleazources
The Conservatives need to get a grip on schools
End violence in schools
How can people teach and learn in such dangerous conditions?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws