Education
Badenoch’s guidance is a classic Tory fudge
It clarifies far less than it leaves confused
The myth of academic meritocracy
An awful lot of talent and experience is about to be wasted
Against sacrificing academic excellence
Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge
Hey, regulator, leave those teachers alone
Against authoritarian tolerance in education
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
In defence of independent schools
If they ain’t broke, don’t fix ‘em
The sad, slow death of state schooling
The decline in standards has been dismayingly avoidable
No university for young men
Higher education no longer offer a bright future
A failure of safeguarding
The government should act on transitioning in schools
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith