Education
Stop confusing kids
Gender theory is damaging our children’s education
Where are all the teachers going?
British education is in a sorry state
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
Educational sleazources
The Conservatives need to get a grip on schools
The roots of school rage
The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
End violence in schools
How can people teach and learn in such dangerous conditions?
Free speech: we should try it again
We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly
I regret to inform you …
An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like
Death by degrees
The dream of the university is being killed by greed, dogma and bureaucracy
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid