Education
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
Against the HRification of history
Hand-wringing about “relatability” divides more than it unites
What has gone wrong with our universities?
A warts and all look at British higher education
A world fit for humans
Both the internet and our real-world shared spaces must be improved
Turn to page two for kink and sex toys
Schools are using teaching material provided by opaque consultancies pushing fringe views on sex and race
The virtues of habit
Schooling needs a different kind of Thatcherism
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
On kids and imagination
We don’t have to teach them how to play
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
We need more private schools
The last thing we should do is make them more expensive
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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
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again