Becky Francis
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all