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French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Applying in camera
Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong