School
Sent to the gulags
School trips with the oligarch kids
Unleash your inner Einstein
Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders
Not exactly untriggered
Claudia Savage-Gore on the dinner party minefield of Everyone’s Invited
An educational dystopia
Finland’s persistent myth and the reality of progressive education
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
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
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders