Education
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?
Children need education, not indoctrination
We need more debate on what children are being taught in RHSE
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
Killing the good Samaritans
In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
