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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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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.