Childcare
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Make childcare cheaper, not more complicated
We won’t educate children better if there are no children to teach
Who will look after the kids?
Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?
Party political
Claudia Savage-Gore loses sleep plotting a stealth-lavish birthday party
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?