Education
The state versus the family
Labour’s assault on home-educating is opportunistic and wrong
We have failed our children
We must reassess our approach to schools, sex and safeguarding
Beware of education technology
The Lexile Scale is alchemy, not science
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
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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 misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK