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
Women directors screened out
Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
The legacy of Vanity Fair’s caricatures
Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society
Life has become the avoidance of death
In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
Return of the dragon
China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further
Raphael & Rome after Lockdown
For art lovers, now is the perfect time to visit The Eternal City
Moral crusade – or extremist front?
Thousands have marched for Black Lives Matter without realising the movement’s revolutionary aims
Achilles heels
Hannah Betts has a fashion-defying weak spot for empowering altitudes
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better