Homeschooling
Homebrewed school reform
The home education movement is here to stay. That’s a good thing for everyone
Nationalising childhood
The government wants to crackdown on home educators — has it tried talking to them instead?
Part Six: Home Education? Help!
Looking to the past – and the future
Home education? Help!
As schools close, isn’t it time to bring home education in from the cold?
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation