A Level Results
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
Making the grade
View from Oxford: there may be lessons to be learned from this year’s fiasco
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
A-level results: an A* in confusion
A-level debacle epitomises the government’s farcical handling of schools throughout the pandemic
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
