Education
The sexist pseudoscience of ‘gender identity’
New Department for Education guidance helps to quell the fallacy of ‘transgender children’
Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
Cancelling exams would only widen educational inequality
A conflict of worldviews: compulsory sex education
How well equipped are our courts to handle sensitive conflicts?
The hell of hol-shaming
Claudia Savage-Gore on the pitfalls of the back-to-school run at the worst time of year
It is high time to modernise our education system
We don’t need a revolution in education, just give kids more choice
Making the grade
View from Oxford: there may be lessons to be learned from this year’s fiasco
Reopening schools: the case against remote education
Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be
#IWentToStateSchool. So what?
The middle-class appropriation of a well-intentioned campaign
Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
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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
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them