Education
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
Children need education, not indoctrination
We need more debate on what children are being taught in RHSE
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
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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
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart