Education
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Safeguarding nightmare
The problem with “teacher activism”
Unleash your inner Einstein
Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders
Walking a tightrope, tying themselves in knots
The Welsh Government’s new sex education curriculum is not fit for purpose
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
A sea of staring eyes
Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning
Failing Black history
Attempts to “decolonise” school history ignore academic rigour in favour of mere tokenism
The classroom culture war
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time
Low panic at high table
The Christ Church coup attempt is fast morphing into a much darker fiasco
Beating a dead narrative
Yet another teacher memoir abuses more clichés
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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 ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp