Education
Exams are good for children
Lowering standards is no act of kindness
The private school exodus dwarfs Treasury predictions
Children and schools are suffering as a result of the imposition of VAT on private school fees
Labour has not lived up to its promises on skills
Bridget Phillipson must change course to deliver the change that Britain needs
University: a good idea
Students should be careful not to underestimate the value of academic study
In praise of the lecture
Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video
Having one’s head examined
To be Master of an Oxbridge college was once the most prized sinecure in Britain
The C of E’s anti-bullying schools guidance is worse than ever
Children in church schools are taught trans affirmation and critical race theory
Nationalising childhood
The government wants to crackdown on home educators — has it tried talking to them instead?
Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
A week in the life of a struggling academic
On the ups, downs and deeper downs of academic life
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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
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses