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?
Private Education and Public Benefit
Why private schools must leave liberalism in the dustbin
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism
The role of prime minister from Gladstone to Johnson
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart on how the role of the Prime Minister has changed in the past 200 years
The decline of David Cameron
With the latest round of humiliating revelations, David Cameron is very much seen as yesterday’s man
He’s behind you!
Turn again, Detective Inspector Hathaway
Passport to Pimlico?
In his most demanding role yet, Boris is wrestling with “complicated ethical and practical issues”
An incredible inventory
James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India
Who champions the little guy now that Trump is gone?
Sir Andrew Cook, chairman of leading British manufacturer William Cook Group, bemoans the fact that the parties of the left no longer stand up for the little guy
The Republicans’ reality problem
MAGA cultists are leading the Republicans into unreality