Education
A-level results: an A* in confusion
A-level debacle epitomises the government’s farcical handling of schools throughout the pandemic
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
Transforming the elite
Independent schools can do more to boost social mobility – but what they’re currently doing won’t work
Can the BBC rebuild our schools?
To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family
The National Tutoring Programme: the most radical education policy yet?
How will increased 1-on-1 learning fit into the future of education?
Decolonising the curriculum
Public schools are joining the culture war
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Why I am backing Buckingham University
Buckingham University is flying high without the help of state support
How much push? Racist anti-racists and the university
Professor Jeremy Black proposes a way of saving history from ideological capture
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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
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!