Education
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
In praise of post-liberalism
Michaela Community School is unique in its robust defence of tradition, truth, belonging and other conservative instincts
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
The end of the old school tie
Private education is under threat from Oxbridge quotas and soaring fees, to the detriment of bright scholarship pupils
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
Is wokery to be added to our school curriculums?
The issues of 2020 should not be allowed to dominate the curriculum
Is there a future for GCSEs and A levels?
The examination system is far from broken, so stop trying to replace it
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
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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
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic