Education
Streaming Spires
There is more to university than lectures: Lars Larundson writes from Oxford
Covid-19 is proving fatal to independent schools
Prejudice against fee paying schools means the crisis is not even being discussed
The best of Heads
Sir Eric Anderson employed the best and let them get on with it
Rescue specialist
He had a particular skill with those who had fallen foul of the system
Old school reformer
Eric understood that the system had to stop being a relic of the past
Master of judgement
Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers a man who knew how to handle people
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
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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
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities