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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge