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
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender