Education
Fair cop
When he gave you a punishment he’d ask if you agreed it was fair
Authoritative not Authoritarian
His Scottish Presbyterian view was not hierarchical
Trust that sustained a community
The main thing about Sir Eric Anderson was his integrity
A living justification for the Union
Eric was at ease with England, yet contributed something which England alone could not provide
The key to self-care
Claudia Savage-Gore stays alert and survives by sending the little darlings back to school
The disarming power of restraint
He showed how the essential prerequisite for greatness is humility
Back to school…or is remote learning enough for now?
And is there a point to counter-factual history?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Private Education and Public Benefit
Why private schools must leave liberalism in the dustbin
Rebecca Long Bailey – classroom warrior
On schools policy, Keir Starmer is no heir to Blair
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
