Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Birbalsingh vs the blob
Labour’s education policy is simply concessions to special interests
The virtues of habit
Schooling needs a different kind of Thatcherism
Breaking the smartphone spell
Parents need more help
Rage against the machine
Schools should be a safe space away from the ghoulish blue light
Have schools lost their true purpose?
Schools have become too focussed on training talent in service of the economy to the detriment of individual and collective flourishing
You can’t ‘level up’ Oxbridge
It is high time we ally elite education, irrespective of background, with the service of the public good
In praise of post-liberalism
Michaela Community School is unique in its robust defence of tradition, truth, belonging and other conservative instincts
Transforming the elite
Independent schools can do more to boost social mobility – but what they’re currently doing won’t work
The National Tutoring Programme: the most radical education policy yet?
How will increased 1-on-1 learning fit into the future of education?
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation