Education
Schoolboy error
The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness
Who wants to be a teacher?
Lucy Kellaway’s memoir is a must-read for anyone considering the profession
The death of the English literature degree
Thanks to “critical theory”, the study of English literature has become overrun with boring academics who hardly inspire the next generation
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
Letter from Washington: Why critical race theory matters
A bad idea is a serious problem
Covid-segregated schooling
Un-masked children are already being kept apart from their masked peers
Critical Race Schools
A student spectator on the wokification of the curriculum
Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
The cancelled chaplain
As a Christian chaplain I have to challenge atheistic Queer Theory
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
