Education
Against Michaela multiculturalism
The school does not offer a successful model of integration for Britain
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
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
