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
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
Vincent’s tragic legend restored
A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all
Hot Valks live!
While belly-laughs are not frequent, there’s terrific fun to be had in this massive soap-opera-style family melodrama
Australia first
What are we supposed to fight for in the Pacific? Is it for Australia or for the sake of US pre-eminence?
Not built to last
Ugly buildings are an environmental catastrophe
Santa’s unspeakable sack
Why are publishers so sniffy about stocking fillers?
Welcome back to reality, feminists
Wokeness is less an intellectual position and more a form of wish-fulfilment
Locked down under
Do Australia’s leaders really know what they’re doing?
See no evil
Rampant sexual violence begins with porn use and ends in the death of women and girls
Maiming a generation
The medicalisation of gender non-conforming young people is the biggest medical scandal of our time
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815