Education
Cancelling cancel culture
The need for the Free Speech Union is pressing but the obstacles are great
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Teaching at Gordonstoun’s prep school
How Jeremy Black filled the ten months between leaving school and starting Cambridge
A light in the darkness
A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Caught in the class war crossfire
Independent schools stand to lose, whoever wins the general election
Applying in camera
Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot
Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education
Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem