direct grant schools
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
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
The American nightmare
America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
L’Architecture of Lanarkshire
Urban planning should depend on local residents more than abstract debates
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
The fall of Port Stanley
Letters from the Falklands front: no April fool
Back to the 70s? If only…
Britain is in far worse trouble than we were 40 years ago
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris