Class
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
At last, I get to join the class war
Down with the mangies, the most craven and unfree of ruling classes
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Children aren’t pets
When did it become okay to degrade children?
Making misogyny a hate crime misses the point
Women need better application of the law, not new legislation from posturing MPs
A real world of consciousness
Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
July: Letters to the Editor
The Reformation has left us with a precious legacy
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt