comprehensive schools
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
Shirley Williams – her legacy for education
Shirley Williams secured a selective school for her own daughter – but did not understand why other parents might want that choice
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict