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
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU