Michaela Community School
The virtues of habit
Schooling needs a different kind of Thatcherism
Michaela’s unspeakable truths
“Progressive” teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
