Artillery Row
The Culture Secretary who wasn’t there
Lisa Nandy was trying to help the corporation as though she were an outside consultant
Levelling the learners
The Curriculum and Assessment Review is a bundle of cliches with compromise at its core
Exclusion and intolerance can be British values
The ancients knew that having a high-trust democracy could not be taken for granted
Why we should welcome Tommy Robinson’s acquittal
The Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to justify excessive police power
Reform has to be serious about spending
The British people deserve, and need, honesty on economics
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
Crisis at the CSC
An apology to all those who would have been outraged by the Sketch if they’d ever read it
No safe territory
The Lord’s final assisted suicide Select Committee week made for grim viewing
Peace, solar power and ponies for all
Zack Polanski has a head full of empty promises
Welcome back to Weimar
In an atomised world, right and left are turning to extremes
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson