Exams
Exams are good for children
Lowering standards is no act of kindness
A license to cheat
The abuse of artificial intelligence systems threatens the integrity of our education system
Is there a future for GCSEs and A levels?
The examination system is far from broken, so stop trying to replace it
Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
Cancelling exams would only widen educational inequality
“E” for effort
Exams fiasco: Gavin Williamson has failed
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A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango