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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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
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A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
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