Education
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
Starmer the farmer
The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
