Education
Kids should eat breakfast at home
Breakfast clubs are bad for both families and the economy
The schools of hard knocks
Many boys suffered, but some carried their misery into the world of work
The stupidification of Scottish schools
Scottish education is being dumbed down in the name of diversity
Labour’s assault on home education
Home educated children are disproportionately scrutinised by the state already
The Philistines versus the Pharisees
How the rise of the meritocrats tore society in two
The return of Victorian parenting
From the bus to the upmarket restaurant, we want our children to sit still and shut up
Why ARC mattered
It offered the chance for serious reflection in rewarding company
Birbalsingh vs the blob
Labour’s education policy is simply concessions to special interests
Down the chute
Venting about laundry and low expectations
Take home education out of detention
You can spot the home educators. They’re the ones who can look adults in the eye
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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
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again