Education
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
The terrible south
Claudia Savage-Gore crosses town to go the extra mile for Hector
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
Schoolboy error
The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness
Who wants to be a teacher?
Lucy Kellaway’s memoir is a must-read for anyone considering the profession
The death of the English literature degree
Thanks to “critical theory”, the study of English literature has become overrun with boring academics who hardly inspire the next generation
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
Letter from Washington: Why critical race theory matters
A bad idea is a serious problem
Covid-segregated schooling
Un-masked children are already being kept apart from their masked peers
Why won’t the BBC debate me?
Trying to bring large, arrogant public institutions to book is exhausting
July 2021: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens says the West was bullied into using the name “Beijing” instead of “Peking”
Bloody vegans
Patrick Galbraith on the complex ethics of butter substitutes
Spare us the virtue-signalling hypocrisy
Footballers who take the knee are participating not in the fight against racism, but in BLM’s double standards
Chips with everything
There is a way to serve pasta and potatoes — with garlic
The judge inside, and on your shoulder
The Public First case is the first in which the application of the apparent bias doctrine to procurement is brought to the fore
Letter from Washington: A final miscalculation in Afghanistan
The bungled US withdrawal marks a low point in the Biden presidency
The best of English reds
With English Wine Week taking place on 19-27 June, why not explore the brave new world of Pinot Noir from Kent, Sussex, Essex and beyond?
The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
Letter from Washington: Biden’s big truths and little lies
The president’s self-styled straight talking is less honest than it seems