Education
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
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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation